Mobivoke: A mobile system architecture to support off school collaborative learning process

Abstract

The collaborative learning paradigm offers one of the most solid approaches to increase the participation, interest and knowledge level of pupils (typical achieving and/or learning disabled students) during the educational process. Recent advances in the field have offered a plethora of tools to facilitate collaboration during school time. Nevertheless, the possibility of applying the collaborative learning principles together with personalized exercise/project assignments (whenever deemed necessary) during off school hours is often overlooked. Motivated by the fact that most pupils/students nowadays have access to smart mobile devices, e.g., tablets, in this paper a system architecture (Mobivoke) is proposed that enables the coupling of individual devices into a social group and offers the means to build applications for orchestrating and monitoring the off school learning process in a collaborative manner. © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.