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

Authors

  • Abdul Razaque
  • Khaled Elleithy University of bridgeport

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v6i1.1808

Keywords:

Mobile collaborative learning (MCL), mobile devices, Server side architecture, client side protocol, group application, cache server.

Abstract


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.

Author Biographies

Abdul Razaque

Mr. Abdul Razaque is Phd candidate of computer science and Engineering department in University of Bridgeport. His current research interests include the design and development of learning environment to support the learning about heterogamous domain, collaborative discovery learning and the development of mobile applications to support mobile collaborative learning (MCL), The congestion mechanism of transmission of control protocol including various existing variants, delivery of multimedia applications. He has published over 20 research contributions in refereed conferences, international journals and books. He has also presented his work more than 10 countries. He is author of 03 books. During the last two years he has been working as a program committee member in IEEE, IET, ICCAIE, ICOS, ISIEA and Mosharka International conference. Abdul Razaque is member of the IEEE, ACM and Springer Abdul Razaque served as Assistant Professor at federal Directorate of Education, Islamabad. He completed his Bachelor and Master degree in computer science from university of Sindh in 2002. He obtained another Master degree with specialization of multimedia and communication (MC) from Mohammed Ali Jinnah University, Pakistan in 2008. Abdul Razaque has been directly involved in design and development of mobile applications to support learning environments to meet pedagogical needs of schools, colleges, universities and various organizations.

Khaled Elleithy, University of bridgeport

Dr. Khaled Elleithy is the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the School of Engineering at the University of Bridgeport. His research interests are in the areas of mobile wireless communications, network security and formal approaches for design and verification and Mobile collaborative learning. He has published more than one hundred twenty research papers in international journals and conferences in his areas of expertise. Dr. Elleithy is the co-chair of International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CISSE).CISSE is the first Engineering/ Computing and Systems Research E-Conference in the world to be completely conducted online in real-time via the internet and was successfully running for four years. Dr. Elleithy is the editor or co-editor of 10 books published by Springer for advances on Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software. Dr. Elleithy received the B.Sc. degree in computer science and automatic control from Alexandria University in 1983, the MS Degree in computer networks from the same university in 1986, and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from The Center for Advanced Computer Studies in the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1988 and 1990, respectively. He received the award of "Distinguished Professor of the Year", University of Bridgeport, during the academic year 2006-2007.

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Published

2012-01-17

How to Cite

Razaque, A., & Elleithy, K. (2012). Interactive Prototypes to Foster Pedagogical Activities for Mobile Collaborative Learning Environment (MCLE). International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 6(1), pp. 16–24. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v6i1.1808

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2012)

Section

Papers

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