Abstract
Smart Classroom facilitates collaborative learning among college students. Students in such an environment form small groups to solve a specific problem or develop a group project. In a Smart Classroom, each student has a situation-aware PDA. Students' PDAs dynamically form mobile ad hoc networks for group meetings. Each PDA monitors its situation (locations of PDAs, noise, light, and mobility) and uses situation to trigger communication activity among the students and the instructor for group discussion and automatic distribution of presentation materials. Middleware can effectively address the situation-awareness and ad hoc group communication for pervasive computing by providing development and runtime support to the application software. We have developed a Reconfigurable Context-Sensitive Middleware (RCSM) for such purposes. In this paper, the characteristics of Smart Classroom, how RCSM can be used to develop such an environment and greatly enhance collaborative learning will be presented. The smat classroom will be used for a senior group software engineering project course as an illustrative example.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings |
| Pages | 13633-13642 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| State | Published - 2003 |
| Event | 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Staying in Tune with Engineering Education - Nashville, TN, United States Duration: Jun 22 2003 → Jun 25 2003 |
Other
| Other | 2003 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Staying in Tune with Engineering Education |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Nashville, TN |
| Period | 6/22/03 → 6/25/03 |
Keywords
- Collaborative learning
- Pervasive computing
- Reconfigurable Context-Sensitive Middleware (RCSM)
- Situation-awareness
- Smart Classroom
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Engineering