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A mobile application for collaborative learning

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Group work in classroom settings is an efficient approach used by many professors to provide a higher level of engagement [3]. Unfortunately, the classroom arrangement is often detrimental to group exercises in which every group member should participate equally. When a group includes more than 3 participants, students are often spread on one or two rows. This configuration makes communication and participation difficult for the students on the extremities. It also limits students from one of the two rows to feel engaged as soon as the exercise requires a specific orientation for the work to be done (such as reading or writing a program). This study explores the use of a touch screen mobile platform such as the iPAD for facilitating students' collaboration. The objective of the platform is to ease interaction among students by enabling students who are not in close proximity to each other to be active participants and work collaboratively. The current prototype allows a group of students to solve a problem individually or collaboratively on their own tablet devices. The finished software will be evaluated for its efficacy as a collaborative tool with on-line groups, as well as in-class groups.

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MobileHCI '12: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services companion
September 2012
278 pages
ISBN:9781450314435
DOI:10.1145/2371664

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