Research on Support of Real-world Learning by SensingLearning Situations in Real Time

解决环境问题（例如，全球变暖）是一个众所周知的社会问题。从教育层面看，应通过环境学习来启迪人们的环保意识。与桌面学习不同，环境学习的本质是在世界上有实践活动（即，真实世界的经验），在那里进行探索性学习，并从世界中获取知识。为了实现环境学习的高级支持，我们的研究项目开发了无处不在的传感技术，以观察和理解现实世界的学习者的经验，并认识到他们在世界上的学习情况。我们的项目还通过分析验证实验的结果验证了我们的技术的有用性。

Solving environmental issues (e.g., global warming) is a widely known social problem. From the viewpoint of educational aspects, we should enlighten consciousness of people by environmental learning. Different from desktop learning, the essence of environmental learning is to have practical activities in the world (i.e., real-world experiences), to do exploratory learning there, and to acquire knowledge derived from the world. For realizing advanced support of environmental learning, our research project developed ubiquitous sensing technologies to observe and understand experiences of real-world learners, and to recognize their learning situations in the world. Our project also verified the usefulness of our technologies by analyzing the results of verification experiments.