{"id":1113,"date":"2016-12-01T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2016-12-01T08:54:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T08:54:33","slug":"beacons-in-outdoor-learning-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacons-in-outdoor-learning-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Beacons in Outdoor Learning Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are working in learning, you might want to take a look at a new research paper <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.utwente.nl\/101356\/1\/ICLS2016_Volume_2%20riesen.pdf#page=274\" target=\"_blank\">Designing Outdoor Learning Spaces With iBeacons: Combining Place-Based Learning With the Internet of Learning Things\u00a0(pdf)<\/a>. It takes a long time to download because it&#8217;s part of a compendium of research from the 12th International Conference of the Learning sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The paper discusses place-based science learning in the context of an arboretum. It describes the use of beacons for informal learning, place-based learning, and context-sensitive educational technologies. Content was delivered in the arboretum with question prompts and activities so as to encourage deeper learning of plants<\/p>\n<p>The paper says it has:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;insights into designing for learner-centered mobile computing that moves <strong>beyond presenting just-in-time information<\/strong> to creating digital-physical spaces where learners engage each other and natural objects to support their interests in science.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;Beyond presenting just-in-time information&#8221;<\/em> is an interesting aspect in that it can be just as applicable to other beacon usecases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are working in learning, you might want to take a look at a new research paper Designing Outdoor Learning Spaces With iBeacons: Combining Place-Based Learning With the Internet of Learning Things\u00a0(pdf). It takes a long time to download because it&#8217;s part of a compendium of research from the 12th International Conference of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacons-in-outdoor-learning-spaces\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beacons in Outdoor Learning Spaces&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}