Lifelong learning hub: A seamless tracking tool for mobile learning

Abstract

Lifelong learners' learning activities are scattered along the day in different locations and they make use of multiple devices. Most of the times adults have to merge learning, work and everyday life making it difficult to have an account on how much time is devoted to learning activities and learning goals. Learning experiences are disrupted and mobile seamless learning technology has to find new solutions to integrate daily life activities and learning in the same process. Hence, there is a need to provide tools that are smoothly integrated into adults' daily life. The contribution of this demonstration is presenting a mobile tool that leads the lifelong learning towards a self-regulated process: foster awareness on learning goals and learning moments; facilitates the user to keep track of learning time with frictionless interface; fosters engagement and motivation on the task providing useful statistics. The 3LHub project has been released under open access with the aim to foster adaptation to further communities as well as to facilitate the extension to the increasing number of NFC tags existent in the market. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.