Content management in a ubiquitous learning environment

A Multi-Temporal Context-aware System for Competences Management

“…The first one describes context and history and compares models for contexts histories management. The MultCComp system applies in the competence management our previous experience in mobile (Saccol et al 2011) and ubiquitous learning (Barbosa et al 2011(Barbosa et al , 2012(Barbosa et al , 2013Levis et al 2008;Silva et al 2010;Wagner et al 2014). Therefore, we discuss in the second section aspects of mobile and ubiquitous learning considered relevant to this article.…”

“…The learners' contexts can be composed of Social Context and Physical Context as proposed by GlobalEdu (Barbosa et al 2012;Barbosa et al 2013). The Social Context has the information about People (for example, name, e-mail, commitments and role), Events (for example, type, description and location) and Resources (for example, name, type, description and commitments) related to a specific context.…”

“…This kind of application organize its knowledge about a user in User Profiles and the profiles are stored in a format called User Models. Modern proposals of learning environments (for example, GlobalEdu Barbosa et al 2013, LOCAL Barbosa et al (Barbosa et al 2011 and iHelp Brooks et al 2006) use Learner Models to improve their pedagogical support. In this sense, some ubiquitous learning proposals (Wagner et al 2014;Silva et al 2010) have used the context history to learner modelling.…”

“…1), which are: three modules, three agents, and an administrative website. The modules are: (1) Profile Module -it stores the worker profiles, in a similar way and with the same goal that learner profiles are stored in learning environments (Wagner et al 2014;Barbosa et al 2013Barbosa et al , 2011; (2) Competence Module -it keeps information about the entire map of competences of the organization; and (3) Context Module -it maintains the contexts defined in the system. The agents present in MultCComp are: (1) Personal Assistant -it accompanies the users on their mobile devices; (2) Relationship Agent -it provides to the users, at the right time, messages sent by the Competences Agent; (3) Competences Agent -it makes inferences of events (for example, congresses or lectures), people to interact with, and contents to be accessed by the users.…”

“…Although there are many studies regarding educational recommender systems (Verbert et al 2012), intelligent help systems (Rodriguez 2006), and learning object repositories (Barbosa et al 2013), they are not focused on competence management in a way that helps companies to evaluate and track the workers progress in their competences. Nonetheless, a few proposals do consider the workers' present environments to manage their competences (Ley et al 2008;Colucci et al 2011).…”