DOI: 10.7763/IJCTE.2012.V4.550
Improve Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning with a Self-Propelled Toy Car Based Learning System
Abstract—How to improve mobile and ubiquitous learning with an innovative approach is a challenge task. To achieve this objective, we designed and implemented a self-propelled toy car based learning system. Our new learning system integrated various advanced technologies such as the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), location service, wireless sensor network, an attractive remote control toy car, three-dimensional toy models and multimedia teaching contents, etc. With the aid of this system, the teacher can easily conduct teaching activities in the classroom, the building hall or the outdoor anytime. The most important features of our system are not only to save the students’ trouble and cost on transportation to learn, but also to motivate the students to learn knowledge as if they are playing the game with the toy car. Our learning system has merits of easily assembling and flexibly updating teaching content.
Index Terms—Mobile, ubiquitous, learning, toy car, multimedia system.
Li-Der Chou, David Chunhu Li, and Chen-Ming Lin are with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan (R. O. C) (e-mail: cld@csie.ncu.edu.tw, sunnydavidli@ieee.org, kinglin@networklab.csie.ncu.edu.tw).
Tzu-Chien Liu and Yi-Chun Li are with the Graduate Institute of Learning and Instruction, National Central University, Taiwan (R. O. C)(e-mail: ltc@cc.ncu.edu.tw, 961407001@cc.ncu.edu.tw).
Cite: Li-Der Chou, Tzu-Chien Liu, David Chunhu Li, Chen-Ming Lin, and Yi-Chun Lin, "Improve Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning with a Self-Propelled Toy Car Based Learning System," International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 651-655, 2012.