What Is Mobile Collaboration?
What Is Mobile Collaboration?
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Mobile collaboration is a technology-based communication process using devices and software for use in remote locations (Mobile Collaboration, 2023). Mobile collaboration allows students to retrieve materials from home, and contact teachers, and peers online. Here, we find the value of mobile devices in that they allow students to connect, communicate, collaborate and create (West, 2013).
Advantages
Advantages
Mobile collaboration is crucial to mobile learning, and there are distinct advantages that mobile collaboration provides. These include increasing student enrolment and retention. (Omar, Liu, Koong, 2008, p. 4). Mobile collaboration allows participants from varying places to be involved and offer a wide breadth of knowledge and experiences to the learning process (Siau & Ling, 2017). One crucial advantage of mobile collaboration is that it provides the learner with support at any time and any place (Siau, & Ling, 2017, p. 48). This can be seen when a student works at home on an assignment and checks Microsoft Teams for the teacher's class notes.
Further, research indicates that working together and transmitting ideas and data is crucial for modern schools. Collaborative technology like Google or Microsoft applications helps improve students’ communication and collaborative skills (Cahill, J. L. 2014).
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Putting Mobile into Mobile Collaboration
Putting Mobile into Mobile Collaboration
The devices and applications learners use are crucial for the success of mobile collaboration. Some examples of these are:
Mobile Devices can include:
Phones,
Tablets,
E-readers,
Laptops and
Smart watches
Applications:
Google Workspace
Instant messaging like Slack, Messenger, & WhatsApp
Video calls such as Zoom
Microsoft teams
Microsoft Powerpoint
(TeachThought Staff, 2021)
Examples of mobile collaboration in the classroom:
Examples of mobile collaboration in the classroom:
A student uses their smartwatch to monitor and record their physical fitness data while they are on the go. The student's watch automatically transfers the data to the phys-ed teacher.
Students, classroom teachers, educational assistants, resource teachers and family members use Microsoft Teams to create, organize, communicate, share files and collaborate in one place (Gonzales, 2018).
Using technology to collaboratively learn while out on an exploratory field trip (Hilliger, Muñoz-Merino, De Laet, Ortega-Arranz, & Farrell, 2022, p. 602).
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