
 
 
Because the publication of the book was very 
close to the semester start, there are only three 
universities so far, that use the course book. We 
expect much higher numbers in terms of downloads 
and feedback at the beginning of the next semester, 
when other universities will introduce the book as 
well. 
7 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE 
WORK  
We have realized a mobile learning platform, which 
can be used for augmenting media coming from 
various sources. More precisely the systems consists 
of an authoring tool for creating exercises. These 
exercises are integrated in an automatically 
generated smart phone app, which is published in the 
belonging app store. We have additionally realized a 
PC based client, which laid not in our focus 
formerly, but which has been easy to realize due to 
the modular architecture of our system. It equally 
offers users without smart phones the possibility to 
access the same learning material. 
In our case the goal was that the learning 
material augments a course book. QR codes are used 
in order establish the logical ling between book and 
exercise on a smart phone. Scanning these codes 
allows to access the belonging exercises on the 
smart phone or tablet.  
The QR codes are a means to comfortably access 
the exercises and inherently provide the information 
of the context of the exercises since chapter and 
section information are encoded therein. 
To sum up we affirm that the learning process 
saves time compared to use traditionally paper based 
workbooks. The system realized this in form of two 
ways. First it is helpful for the organization of the 
learning process and second it assists the learner as a 
reference tool between content and lesson. 
In the future we will first have a closer look at 
the synchronization between the mobile client and 
the PC client. Right now there is no connection 
between the two systems. The integration of other 
learning platforms in order to import already 
existing exercises is another issue we want to 
address. Offering a way to adapt the system to the 
user and to intelligently select the exercises 
presented to the user are further challenges we will 
look into. For a first step we want to store the 
current state of the exercises, especially the wrong 
exercises, so that a user can continue working on her 
former input.  
Finally we will look at the feedback we get from 
the app store for prioritizing the next development 
steps. 
Currently we can emphasize that MORE is 
executable with the operating systems Android, Mac 
OS, Linux and Windows. The First one is 
compatible with almost 800 smart phones and tablet 
devices. 
The project MORE has been designed and 
realized by department for Historical Linguistics of 
German and the department for e-Learning 
Coordination, both are institutes at the University of 
Trier and the department of Computer Science at the 
University of Applied Science, Trier. 
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