Wireless and mobile technologies to enhance teaching and learning

TLDR

The study proposes a Wireless Technology Enhanced Classroom (WiTEC) designed to unobtrusively support everyday classroom activities. WiTEC is built by integrating wireless LAN, mobile learning devices, an electronic whiteboard, an interactive classroom server, and a resource/class management server, enabling features that facilitate teaching and learning, illustrated through a project‑based learning scenario. The authors conclude with several recommendations for future research.

Abstract

Abstract This research aims to build a Wireless Technology Enhanced Classroom (WiTEC) that supports everyday activities unobtrusively and seamlessly in classroom contexts. This paper describes the integration of wireless LAN, wireless mobile learning devices, an electronic whiteboard, an interactive classroom server, and a resource and class management server to build the WiTEC. This contains a number of features that can support class members in various types of teaching and learning activities. Project‐based learning is taken as a scenario to elaborate how teachers and students can engage in teaching and learning via WiTEC. Finally, a number of suggestions are discussed for further study.