Characteristics Of Ubiquitous Learning

The Definition and characteristics of ubiquitous learning

There is a lot of talk about ubiquitous learning in educational side, definition and implementation from this management. The first thing that we should know what is “Ubiquitous” and “learning”. Word of ubiquitous is anywhere and anytime whereas learning means act or process of acquiring knowledge. So if we make two connections from these words, we will find that Ubiquitous learning is often simply defined as process to get skills anytime and therefore closely associated with mobile technologies. It is same if we called mobile learning because it can be accessed in a variety of contexts and situations. The ubiquitous learning also means a form of study encouraging persistent education

The most significant role of ubiquitous computing technology in this model is to create a ubiquitous environment which enables everyone to learn at anyplace at anytime. The main characteristics of ubiquitous learning are the following:

1. Permanency: Learners never lose their work unless it is purposefully deleted. In addition, all the learning processes are recorded continuously every day.

2. Accessibility: Learners have access to their documents, data, or videos from anywhere. That information is provided based on their requests. Therefore, the education involved is self-directed.

3. Immediacy: Wherever learners are, they can get any information immediately. Thus, learners can solve problems quickly. Otherwise, the learner can record the questions and look for the answer later.

4. Interactivity: Learners can interact with experts, teachers, or peers in the form of synchronies or asynchronous communication. Hence, the experts are more reachable and the knowledge becomes more

Ubiquitous learning, according to the Ubiquitous Learning Institute home page, is also considered to be learning that is situated and immersive, and therefore could take place from the traditional classroom in a virtual environment whether the device is in hand or surrounding us, the idea of ubiquity comes from the ease of computing brought about by technological advances. In the editorial in The Journal of Educational Technology and Society, "One-to-one learning is based on the belief that people learn differently as a result of owning personal handheld computing devices (Chen et al., 2002). The attributes of these devices, including portability, connectivity and context understanding combined with sound pedagogical ideas can transform learning from being a merely productive knowledge acquisition process to an active social interaction activity." It can be explain that ubiquitous learning occurs not just in classroom but in the home, the work place, the playground, the library, museum, and in our daily interactions with others. It becomes part of doing means we do not learn in order to live more completely but rather learn as we live to completely and filled. Then no longer identified with reading a text or listening to lectures but quite employs all the senses like sight, hearing, touch, feel and