A Cloud-based Awareness Classroom Learning Activity Portfolio System Based on iBeacon for Flipped Classroom

Abstract

The paper presents a cloud service system that builds students’ awareness classroom activity portfolio. Here the system is call a classroom learning activity portfolio (CLAP) system. It utilizes iBeacon devices, a kind of wireless devices to connect without human intervention, as awareness functions in the learning environment construction. Also, it develops APPs for mobile devices to get students’ classroom activity portfolio, and then to keep them in the cloud server of the system. Additionally, Apps offers web links for learning. There are several types of students’ classroom activity portfolio including log data of recording students enter/leave classroom, responses to pushing information once students entered classroom, and distances from students’ position (seat) in classroom to teacher’ presentation location (for example, the front desk of the classroom). The CLAP system can offer analysis results of the classroom activity portfolio. Hence, it can help students who can readily send their records or responses on class in classroom. Moreover, they do not require in typing many data (for example, long URLs) for interacting with the portfolio collection system. Furthermore, the system can assist teachers in collecting students’ classroom activity portfolio, and then to have analysis results of the portfolio. For instance, teachers can get the result that students entered classroom but they send less or no feedback in classroom to the cloud server. Experimental results demonstrate the CLAP system has high learning interests while applying it in flipped-classroom learning.