A mobile campus application as a sensor node for Personal Learning Environments

Abstract

For many web-based applications, there is at least one corresponding mobile applica­tion. By leveraging a mutual exchange of the cross-device user context between mobile and web-based application, guidance and processes can be improved and therefore simplified. This article presents an infrastructure to enable cross-device and cross-service personalization and adaption while aiming at high interoperability between heterogeneous systems. As a proof-of-concept, an existing mobile campus app framework was extended by a hybrid context-framework to capture user data, which is stored in a Learning Record Store (LRS) by the use of the Experience API.