CAFCLA: A Conceptual Framework to Develop Collaborative Context-Aware Learning Activities

Abstract

Advances appeared in Information and Communication Technologies along last years have given raise to new interaction ways between people and technology. Ambient Intelligences (AmI) is a multidisciplinary research area which promotes the use or technology in a transparent way to facilitate everyday tasks. Education is one field that benefits from AmI: collaboration between students in innovate ways, data acquisition from the context or real time location systems enhance learning processes. This paper presents CAFCLA, a framework aimed at designing, developing and deploying AmI-based educational scenarios where collaboration between students and contextual information are available every time and everywhere through multiple resources and communication protocols.