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Title: Using mobile devices to support online collaborative learning
Author: Caballé, Santi  
XHAFA, FATOS  
Barolli, Leonard  
Others: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Fukuoka Institute of Technology
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). Estudis d'Informàtica, Multimèdia i Telecomunicació
Citation: Caballé, S., Xhafa, F. & Barolli, L. (2010). Using mobile devices to support online collaborative learning. Mobile Information Systems, 6(1), 27-47. doi: 10.3233/MIS-2010-0091
Abstract: Mobile collaborative learning is considered the next step of on-line collaborative learning by incorporating mobility as a key and breakthrough requirement. Indeed, the current wide spread of mobile devices and wireless technologies brings an enormous potential to e-learning, in terms of ubiquity, pervasiveness, personalization, flexibility, and so on. For this reason, Mobile Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning has recently grown from a minor research field to significant research projects covering a fairly variety of formal and specially informal learning settings, from schools and universities to workplaces, museums, cities and rural areas. Much of this research has shown how mobile technology can offer new opportunities for groups of learners to collaborate inside and beyond the traditional instructor-oriented educational paradigm. However, mobile technologies, when specifically applied to collaborative learning activities, are still in its infancy and many challenges arise. In addition, current research in this domain points to highly specialized study cases, uses, and experiences in specific educational settings and thus the issues addressed in the literature are found dispersed and disconnected from each other. To this end, this paper attempts to bridge relevant aspects of mobile technologies in support for collaborative learning and provides a tighter view by means of a multidimensional approach.
Keywords: mobile collaborative learning
social learning
situated learning
behaviorism
constructivism
pervasiveness
ubiquity
mobile technologies
DOI: 10.3233/MIS-2010-0091
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Issue Date: Jan-2010
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/  
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