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Title:	Group-awareness for mobile cooperative learning.
Author:	Meseguer Pallarès, Roc; Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Reyes Muñoz, María Angélica
Other authors:	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. DSG - Distributed Systems Group
Abstract:	Collaborative learning traditionally relies on the arrangement of space and physical artifacts to mediate group activities. Our claim is that CSCL environments should enhance collaborative learning in a complementary way without introducing additional burden to human participants. This paper present research results on how tracking the location of people could be used to incorporate automatic group awareness in existing and new CSCL applications that support mobile cooperative learning. After presenting the requirements and structure of a middleware to handle automatic group awareness based on location information, two applications are presented. Experiments in a real setting on a jigsaw activity, with students using laptops with WiFi on a university course, confirm the validity of using location technology to automatically derive group structure and the positive effect on the learning results.
Abstract:	Peer Reviewed
Subject(s):	-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors::Arquitectures distribuïdes -Distributed systems -Automatic group awareness -Collaborative learning -Computer-aided instruction -Jigsaw activity -Middleware -Mobile computing -Mobile cooperative learning -CSCL -Sistemes distribuïts
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Document type:	Conference Object
Published by:	IEEE
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