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Learning with Wearable Technologies: A Case of Google Glass

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The Mobile Learning Voyage - From Small Ripples to Massive Open Waters (mLearn 2015)

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The purpose of this study is to determine how wearable are used in education. Different types of wearable technologies, such as smart watches, fitness trackers, smart glasses, HoloLens or even smart clothing are gradually changing the structure of global consumer market. These changes inevitably lead to transformation of educational spaces. This paper presents a review of scientific literature for the last three years (2013-2015) in the field of using Google Glass as a teaching and learning tool. We have analysed over thirty papers in reviewed journals, proceedings of conferences and scholarly web sources. In recent years, there has been an increasing amount of literature on the use wearable technologies in education. Wearable devices are used by explorers, librarians and educators at workplaces, university libraries, laboratories and classrooms. Learning with wearables is one of the most widespread trends in medical or especially surgical education. Wearable computers are actively used by library staff and assist to library patrons at universities. Some of the pilot projects in learning with wearables help students to study anatomy, physics and other discipline through application prototypes. Overall, some sources indicate that learning with wearable technologies has big perspectives while other ones show several examples of low efficiency in using wearable technologies in education.

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Sapargaliyev, D. (2015). Learning with Wearable Technologies: A Case of Google Glass. In: Brown, T., van der Merwe, H. (eds) The Mobile Learning Voyage - From Small Ripples to Massive Open Waters. mLearn 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 560. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25684-9_25

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