Collaborative learning supported by mobile devices

Collaborative learning has been getting more importance in educational
environment as one type of mobile learning application. In this learning
environment there are a shift of learning approach, i.e. in a
traditional approach the focus is on the teacher and in static and
repetitive contents, oppositely with a collaborative learning the learn
is centered in the students where they have a critical apprehension of
contents that goes beyond the classroom, students could learning in
different places. Learning supported by mobile technologies is becoming a
new approach towards education, and it is single in the way that offers
opportunities to learn anywhere and anytime. This paper introduces the
foundations of collaborative learning supported by mobile technologies
as well as presenting and analysing the evolution of collaborative
learning supported by mobile devices in Portuguese (North region) Higher
Education Institutions between 2009/2010 and 2014/2015.