LIGHTWEIGHT ADAPTIVE MOBILE LEARNING

Abstract

Mobile leaming (m-Iearning) allows electronic learning materials accessed through mobile device. The imponent thing to consider in developing m-Iearning is the adaptation capability of the Web applications to meet the client's device limitation. This paper describes the design and implementation of" lightweight adaptive m-Iearning system. The system adapts dynamically to the limitation of the client's device. One of the adaptation methods running in server side is transformation technique that involves conversion (rom one markup language to oibers. eXtensible Markup Language (XML) technology sets apart the implementation of data end presentation, and hence, makes it easier to perform adaptation technique through transformation, The advantage of the XML technology is its efficient Web management technique, since only single data tormet is needed in each content. The presentation that meets the device capability is produced by specific stylesheet known as single pipeline, PHP is useti asl open source server scriptini; language to implement the XML transformation trough XSL T due to its lightweight characteristic. Our experiment shows that the given response time is still within tolerance limit of Web access response time, that is, less than one second.