Design and Development of Hilogocical Prototypes for Mobile Collaborative Learning (MCL)

© ASEE 2011Collaborative learning is becoming more attentive approach within all educational environments. With new emerging technologies on mobile devices, collaborative learning has grown in popularity to be able to boost the pedagogical learning model in nomadic environments. This paper describes theoretical and technical foundations for designing and developing an effective Mobile collaborative learning (MCL) environment. The focus of this paper is to suggest the client and server based prototypes with support of functional components and working procedures, which help the user to get contents from server to meet the pedagogical needs. We have also proposed novel concept of integrating the features of content-server with cache-server, which helps the users to obtain the fast contents for MCL process. Our proposed prototypes will provide best MCL environment particularly for those students who do not want to attend the institutions but want to learn at homes and working places through mobiles. Finally, we propose new application named "group" with complete prototype design and development to facilitate the students for obtaining the contents for collaboration. Some valuable recommendations are also suggested to incorporate with "group” in Android operating system (OS) and we also implement some part of group application