Chris Noessel > Masters Project: Free Range Learning Support> Enabling Questions
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Enabling Questions

  On the main screen, users can indicate that they want to ask a question. The resulting "ask screen" allows them to enter a question in text. If their device allows them to take photographs, it also provides an option to attach an image to the question. Once they complete their question, they have the option to send it to a computer for automated reference, to a group of pre-defined peers known as a learning circle, or, for a small charge, to the service for answering by an expert.

Any time a question is provided to the system from a mobile learner, the question is stored in the database with a note of the location from which it was asked. Doing so helps to build the location database on which another component, Genius Loci, relies.

Asking a question.
Asking a question.

Deciding where to send it.
Deciding where to send it.

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