Pervading Collaborative Learning with Mobile Devices

Mobile technology benefits education by pervading learning activity, increasing efficiency in learning, empowering learners, enabling distance learning, encouraging real-world interaction and allowing spontaneous collaborations and learning to occur. At the ACET Centre, we are developing a collaborative computing platform, Coco, which builds on peer-to-peer and mobile technology. Coco supports the usecases expressing the aforementioned benefits through provision of a suite of applications that includes instant-messaging and knowledge management with collaborative metadata annotation capabilities. This paper discusses how Coco utilises mobile technology and how it enables collaborative learning in a range of situations.