International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 12(2), 83-103, April-June 2014 83
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ABSTRACT
The rapid progress of wireless communication, sensing, and mobile technologies has enabled students to learn
in an environment that combines learning resources from both the real world and the digital world. It can be
viewed as a new learning style which has been called context-aware ubiquitous learning. Most context-aware
ubiquitous learning systems employ expensive sensing technologies, such as Radio Frequency Identifcation
(RFID), to detect the real-world learning behaviors of students and to provide personalized learning guid-
ance accordingly. In this paper, the authors use QR (Quick Response) code, a low cost technology that is
available on smart phones for detecting students’ real-world learning status. Moreover, Web 2.0 technology
is employed to enable students to collaboratively build a learning materials database. An experiment was
conducted to investigate the relationships between the system quality, personal factors, learning motivation,
perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use, learning attitude, and behavioral intention of the students. In
addition, from the interviews, it was found that most of the students felt interested in learning with the system
and considered it as a helpful learning tool.
Development and Evaluation
of a Web 2.0-Based Ubiquitous
Learning Platform for
Schoolyard Plant Identifcation
Gwo-Haur Hwang, Department of Information Networking and System Administration, Ling
Tung University, Nantun, Taichung, Taiwan
Hui-Chun Chu, Department of Computer Science and Information Management, Soochow
University, Taipei, Taiwan
Beyin Chen, Department of Information Management, Ling Tung University, Nantun,
Taichung, Taiwan
Zheng Shan Cheng, Department of Information Technology, Ling Tung University, Nantun,
Taichung, Taiwan
Keywords: Schoolyard Learning, Smart Phone, Technology Acceptance Model, Ubiquitous Learning,
Web 2.0
DOI: 10.4018/ijdet.2014040105