A good amount of research has explored the use of wearables for educational or learning purposes. We have now reached a point when much literature can be found on that topic, but few attempts have been made to make sense of that literature from a holistic perspective. This paper presents a systematic review of the literature on wearables for learning. Literature was sourced from conferences and journals pertaining to technology and education, and through an ad hoc search. Our review focuses on identifying the ways that wearables have been used to support learning and provides perspectives on that issue from a historical dimension, and with regards to the types of wearables used, the populations targeted, and the settings addressed. Seven different ways of how wearables have been used to support learning were identified. We propose a framework identifying five main components that have been addressed in existing research on how wearables can support learning and present our interpretations of unaddressed research directions based on our review results.
翻译:大量研究探索了将穿戴用具用于教育或学习目的的问题,我们现在已到了可以找到大量关于这一专题的文献的地步,但从整体角度来理解这些文献的尝试很少,本文件对关于穿戴用具用于学习的文献进行了系统审查,文学来源于与技术和教育有关的会议和期刊,并通过特别搜索进行。我们的审查侧重于查明穿戴用具用于支持学习的方式,并从历史角度提供关于该问题的观点,以及使用的穿戴用具的类型、目标人群和所涉环境。确定了使用穿戴用具支持学习的七种不同方法。我们提出了一个框架,确定现有研究中涉及的五个主要组成部分,即穿戴用具如何支持学习,并根据我们的审查结果提出我们对未解决研究方向的解释。