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Educational technology is constantly evolving and growing, and it is inevitable that this progression will continually offer new and interesting advances in our world. The instigation of calm technologies for the delivery of education is another new approach now emerging. Calm technology aims to reduce the "excitement" of information overload by letting the learner select what information is at the center of their attention and what information need to be at the peripheral. In this paper we report on the adaptation of calm technologies in an educational setting with emphasis on the needs to cater the preferences of the individual learner to respond to the challenge of providing truly learner-centered, accessible, personalized and flexible learning. Central to calm computing vision is the notion of representing learning objects as widgets, harvesting widgets from the periphery based on semantic wikis as well as widgets garbage collection from the virtual/central learning memory.
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Fiaidhi, J. (2010). Developing Personal Learning Environments Based on Calm Technologies. In: Kim, Th., Ma, J., Fang, Wc., Park, B., Kang, BH., Ślęzak, D. (eds) U- and E-Service, Science and Technology. UNESST 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 124. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17644-9_15
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