Learners

An Open Learning Format for Lifelong Learners' Empowerment, the Law and other Social Sciences

Open, lifelong and ubiquitous learning, cloud computing and smart city frameworks are the pillars of the change that is replacing the traditional education and work models and transforming the way crowds of people learn, communicate, collaborate, teamwork, produce value and growth for the entities of which they are part. This work presents the updated version of SSW4LL (Social Semantic Web for Lifelong Learners), an adaptive, modular, flexible and integrated learning format which has been devised to support the characterisation of adult lifelong learners' PLEs by implicit and explicit tools of personalisation, in a learner-centred framework. The SSW4LL system, the technological architecture, is presented as a whole made up of components of formal and informal learning environments: Moodle 2.9 integrated with an adaptive mechanism (conditional activities) and some tools of Social Semantic Web (Semantic MediaWiki 2.3, Diigo and Google+), respectively. The SSW4LL format was successfully validated during the course SSW4LL 2011.[1]

Integrated Paper-based and Digital Learning Material for Smart Learners, the Law and other Social Sciences

Smart learners are lifelong learners whose potential is unleashed by the seamless use of smart technologies (i.e., smartphones, tablets, tablet PCs, sensor network nodes, contact-less smart cards, RFID and QR codes) to access huge amounts of open resources and connections, anywhere anytime. Personal, and personalised, smart technologies increase a learner's independence in a novel way, and makes the context for engaging in study more tailored and potentially self-directed. This work aims to illustrate the QRcode format, a framework that supports smart learning by the integration of paper-based and digital learning material through Quick Response (QR) code. The format was devised within the research project Learning4All (2009-2012) and was validated by several learning experiences of English as a foreign language (EFL) for different clusters. Subsequently, the format was selected as element of techno-pedagogical innovation in the Eureka project (2012-2014), a network of 11 schools in Apulia, Italy, for the enhancement of curriculum continuity from middle into high school.[1]

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Notes and References

1. Sabrina Leone, “Integrated Paper-Based and Digital Learning Material for Smart Learners” (Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 4th Edition, Information Resources Management Association, 2018)

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Notes and References

1. Sabrina Leone, “An Open Learning Format for Lifelong Learners' Empowerment” (Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 4th Edition, Information Resources Management Association, 2018)