1 Innovative mobile application to foster Mobile Collaborative Learning Environment (MCLE)

Abstract — Emergence of latest technologies has diverted the focus of people form Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) to mobile-supported collaborative learning. MCL is highly demanded in educational organizations to substantiate the pedagogical activities. Some of the MCL supportive architectures including applications are proposed and implemented in several fields to improve the activities of those organizations but they need more concise paradigm to support both types of collaboration e.g. synchronous and a synchronous. This paper introduces the new pre-usability testing method which provides educational support and gives complete picture for developing new pedagogical group application for MCL. The features of application includes user friendly interface, provision of rights to administrators for recording a collaborative activities of students and teachers during the whole session or any specific period of time, asynchronous collaboration, synchronous collaboration, support for multi model, provision for archive updating, providing the facility to contact and invite the participants for collaboration, middleware support, virtual support and delivery of large rich multimedia contents (video-on-demand). The application also supports the learners to recognize and mediate the participants in shared knowledge environment. Finally, to validate the features of application, we conduct the post usability testing and heuristic evaluation, which helps in collecting the empirical data to prove the effectiveness and suitability of Group application. Further, application aims to improve learning impact and educate people at anytime and anywhere