Concept, Design and First Evaluation of a Mobile Learning Diary Application with Access to a Learning Record Store

Especially in higher and further education, today’s learning more and more allows and also requires individual learning strategies. On the one hand, this development is a step towards lifelong learning and a higher personal engagement. On the other hand, many learners struggle with organizing learning processes on their own. Learning diaries were proven to be supportive for self-regulated learning. In this paper, we show the concept and design of a mobile learning diary application, which extends standard functionality like planning, documenting and reflecting learning behavior. Through a distributed architecture with a central learning record store, the application has access to data of all users and all learning applications within the architecture. We also report first insights of collected data during a small field study and some feedback obtained through a questionnaire.