Effectiveness of practices with sensors in engaging in meaningful learning in higher education: Extending a framework of ubiquitous learning

This paper aims to specify strategies for learning scenarios that incorporate ubiquitous features to support pedagogical practice. Thus, the development aims to verify if the resources of technology with context awareness promote significant changes in teaching practice, and can impact positively or not the effectiveness of learning and engagement of learners. In this regard, a reference ubiquitous environment called Youubi was used to support learning activities based on context. It consists of a framework of services that are easily integrated from applications in API format. In order to achieve the objectives of this research, the proposed method consists of three (03) phases. The first phase was a systematic review of the ubiquitous learning environments in order to identify which architectural features and their learning processes are used in learning scenarios based on the context. In the second phase an installation designed with the Youubi ubiquitous environment proposed a learning scenarios and new pedagogical practice for teachers in higher education. The third stage will be the design of high fidelity of ubiquitous learning scenarios prototype. After that, the actions will consist in validating the ubiquitous learning scenarios. In this paper we present the results of the systematic literature review. From these outcomes, we will generate pedagogical strategies for ubiquitous learning scenarios. These may also be used as recommendations to improve of current ubiquitous learning environments as well as the design of the Youubi environments.