A revision of the literature concerned with mobile, ubiquitous, and pervasive learning: A survey

Abstract

This chapter tailors a perspective of the work fulfilled in three learning research lines, which besides holding many common attributes also tend to converge to shape mobile, ubiquitous, and pervasive sceneries. Such a junction pursues to spread the traditional classroom and distance settings to open environments, as well as use the surrounding physical and digital objects as learning content that is available to learners at anytime, anywhere, and in any way. In sum, a complete learning environment is recreated to provide formal and informal learning to support academic studies, professional training, and lifelong learning. Thus, in this chapter a description of the mobile, ubiquitous, and pervasive learning (MUP-Learning) arena is presented through the selection of a sample of recent and transcendent works that offer from a conceptual contribution, such as models and frameworks, even empirical approaches oriented to specific domains of study. The sample of works is characterized according to a proposed pattern, as well as organized according to a suggested taxonomy. A profile to describe each work is also stated and a series of statistics are presented, as well as an analysis of the arena is provided to understand the potential and challenges related to the MUP-Learning field.