1. INFORMAL MOBILE COLLABORATIVE
LEARNING OBJECTS USING MOBILE SMART
DEVICES in HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
Hasnain Zafar
hasnainzafar@ieee.org
Supervisions :
AP Dr. Azizah and Dr. Noorminshah

2. Design of Mobile Collaborative Informal
Learning Activities Using Activity Theory,
Mobile Devices and Social Tools: Universiti
Teknologi Malaysia Case Study.
Hasnain Zafar Baloch
Department of
Information System,
Universiti Teknologi

3. TOC
 What is Mobile Collaborative Informal Learning
(MCIL)?
 Research Objectives
 Case study 1
 Case study 2
 Results
 Future Work
 Reference

4. MCILE
 Mobile Devices (Laptop, Smart phones, Tablets etc.)
 Designing of Learning Activities.
 Learning tools
 Learner

5. Research Objectives
 Think of Activity designing , tools, and task
 Collaboration
 Design learning activities
 Tool appropriation
 MCILE

6. Designing is challenge
 “It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A
lot of times, people don’t know what they want until
you show it to them.” – Steve Jobs
 Learner do not know what they want?
 Asking learner to what they want , in design what they
want?

7. Integrative learning design
(ILD)
Claudio Alvarez, Rosa Alarcon, Miguel Nussbaum 2010

8. Case Study 1
Tools( Artifact)
Outcome (Summary
+Presentation)
Subject(PhD Students) Objective
(Collaboration)
Division of Labor
Rules COP(Professor)
(Team members)
Building on the work of Vygotsky, L. S., 1978; Engestrom , 1987; Gustavo Zurita,
and Miguel Nussbaum 2004

9. Case Study 2
Tools( Artifact)
( Team box, Stixy)
Outcome (Summary
+Presentation)
Subject(PhD Students) Objective
(Collaboration)
Division of Labor
Rules COP(Professor)
(Team members)
Building on the work of Vygotsky, L. S., 1978; Engestrom , 1987; Gustavo Zurita,
and Miguel Nussbaum 2004

10. Results
 Case Study (Facilitator Participation less, Lack of tool
to capture detail data)
 Case study 2 (Used Team box and Stixy)
 Active participation of facilitator plays very important
role in effective Collaborative learning activities
 Multimedia task need to design.

11. Statements of Learners
 “I have learned how to search papers easily during this
collaborative task”
 “However, I understood course materials and concept
of article better by collaboration with my friends”

12. Future Work
 Improvement in designing the MCIL activity.
 Second iteration of same activity and focus on peer
evaluation of activities.

13. References
 Vygotsky, L. S. (1978). Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes. Chapter 6
Interaction between learning and development (79-91). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
 Sharples, M. 2009. Methods for Evaluating Mobile Learning. Researching Mobile Learning:
Frameworks, Tools and Research Designs: 17-39.
 Sharples, M., Taylor, J., & Vavoula, G. 2010. A theory of learning for the mobile age: learning through
conversation and exploration across contexts.
 Vavoula, G.N., and Sharples, M. (2007).
Future Technology Workshop: a collaborative method for the design of new learning technologies and
activities.
International Journal of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2(4), pp. 393-419.
 Gustavo Zurita, and Miguel Nussbaum (2004) Computer supported collaborative learning using
wirelessly interconnected handheld computers.

14. Acknowledgement
 Post graduate Students of Information System
department of UTM.
 Facilitators.
 UTM IDF sponsorship.

15. Thank You
 Questions , Comments
 hasnainzafar@gmail.com
 @hasnainzafar