Context aware mobile learning: A systematic mapping study
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Context aware mobile learning: A systematic mapping study Bimal Aklesh Kumar 1
& Bibhya
Sharma 2 & Elisa Yumi Nakagawa 3
Received: 13 July 2020 / Accepted: 22 September 2020/ # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Context Aware Mobile Learning (CAML) provides a learning experience tailored to educational needs and the particular circumstance of the learner. CAML has become an active area of research. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of research conducted on CAML through counting and classifying contributions. The applied method is a systematic mapping study using eight major publication databases. Initially, 115 studies were retrieved after assessing against the selection criteria 90 studies were selected. The results provide useful insight into the current state of research, the geographical distribution of papers, venues of publication, and types of studies published. The results were useful to position future research activities. Keywords Context aware mobile learning . Mobile learning . Systematic mapping study
1 Introduction Mobile devices allow access to educational resources, and the latest generation of mobile phones even have the capability to allow learners to perform informal learning activities outside the classroom (Almaiah and Alismaiel 2019; Kumar et al. 2020). Mobile devices can be used to exploit learners surrounding and provide learning resources that fit the particular circumstance of the learner, that is referred as Context * Bimal Aklesh Kumar [email protected] Bibhya Sharma [email protected] Elisa Yumi Nakagawa [email protected]
1
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji
2
School of Mathematical and Computing Science, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji
3
Institute of Mathematics and Computational Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Education and Information Technologies
Aware Mobile Learning (CAML) (Sharma et al. 2018; Kumar and Goundar 2019). CAML applications are those that have concise of the environment, Dey and Abowd (2000) defined “context as any information that is used to characterize the situation of an entity”. In mobile learning, context information can be time, location, age, etc., that can have an impact on the learners learning ability (Aloui and Gargouri 2012; Kumar and Sharma 2019). Recently there has been increased interest in this area of research, and a number of papers have been published. In literature, there are many papers on CAML however, to the best of our knowledge, there is a lack of study that provides an overview of the field. Motivated by this shortcoming, the main contribution of this paper is to examine the research conducted and set the direction for further research in this field. The applied method is a systematic mapping study based on the guidelines proposed by (Petersen et al. 2015; Kitchenham and Charters 2007). Systematic mapping studies are designed to give an overview of a research area through clas
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