Effect of Enhancing Learning through Annotation Similarity and Recommendation System

With the use of smart mobile devices, learning opportunities have been greatly increased in education. Especially, digital textbooks are the new primary digital instructional resource for elementary and middle schools. The use of electronic textbooks in a mobile learning environment assists collaborative learning and increases access to educational resources. Learners are now able to share their bookmarks, notes and highlights both on and off campus. These annotation features can lead to enhanced learning effect for students. Digital textbooks still face several hurdles as the value of using electronic textbooks for students remains unclear. Major reasons limiting the uptake of digital textbooks include usability and design issues. One of the most important features in education is interaction between resources and students such as annotating or highlighting. To enhance value of digital textbooks, we designed a prototype note-taking interface reflecting students learning pattern and selfdirected learning. The interface and functionality were defined in order to support touchbased annotation input and cooperative learning. It has been implemented a touch-based device for smart education environment.