EXPIRED Enabling Synchronous Collaboration in Web Mobile Learning Applications

This paper presents the Author system for designing and delivering interactive and multimedia-based learning lessons. The system is designed as a generic tool for building learning contents and as a multi-platform content delivery tool. Every web application is considered to be a widget that can be imported into the system and then made collaborative. By specifying collaboration attributes such widgets are empowered with synchronous collaborative support to be used in and out of the classroom, depending on the devices available to students and the teachers. The paper presents the system design, two collaborative widgets for synchronous math learning in pairs and triplets and the initial experiences in deploying and using the system in early primary school settings.