The teacher as coordinator in a mobile collaborative learning environment

In collaborative learning tools supported by mobile devices, users exchange messages in order to support the collective construction of knowledge by the members of a group. Activity entries in the group provide evidence of how the learning progress occurs. Coordination mechanisms together with learning analytic techniques can be used in teaching environments, in order to support the teacher in the coordination, allowing him/her to adapt the pedagogical proposals. This paper aims to identify the coordination mechanisms for mobile teaching-learning collaborative environments, as well as to apply them to model a system (EZClass) with emphasis on teacher coordination in a virtual learning environment. The mechanisms are represented by functional requirements and they are used in the definition of the EZClass system. The EZClass was designed to assist the teacher in coordinating activities on a virtual learning environment, so that the teacher can make decisions based on the presented indicators, allowing to adapt the pedagogical proposal to better supply the students' demands.