Interactive Prototypes to Foster Pedagogical Activities for Mobile Collaborative Learning Environment (MCLE)

Interactive Prototypes to Foster Pedagogical Activities for Mobile Collaborative Learning Environment (MCLE)

Mobile collaborative learning (MCL)

mobile devices

Server side architecture

client side protocol

group application

cache server.

Deployment of new emerging technologies have attracted and motivated a great deal of attention from researchers and scientist in various disciplines to develop and design the learning management systems, virtual learning environments and conference systems with support of MCL for education and other organizations. This technological revolution of connecting large numbers of potential learners through mobile telephony creates new challenges for developing the new architectures for education and business. Some of the MCL paradigms are proposed and implemented in various fields such as university, corporate, health and military but they lack completeness. This paper introduces new server and client side interactive prototypes with support of various working components, which help the users in obtaining the contents from server to meet the pedagogical requirements. This paper also proposes and integrates the features of content-server with cache-server to provide the faster delivery of contents for MCL. Furthermore, the paper proposes and implements some features of a novel "group application" to support asynchronous and synchronous and multimodal features to facilitate the students for MCL. Finally, the paper validates the features of interactive architecture and applications. This contribution will encourage and motivate the students to pursue their education again because the students will be able to get the course contents at anytime and anywhere.

Razaque, Abdul

Elleithy, Khaled

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 6 No. 1 (2012); pp. 16-24

1865-7923

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

2012-01-17

Copyright (c) 2017 Abdul Razaque, Khaled Elleithy

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