A Lightweight Approach for Flexible Group Management in the Classroom

Abstract

In this paper we describe a session management system for setting up various collabora- tive classroom scenarios. The approach is addressing the additional workload of administrating classroom networks on the teacher, which is an important aspect for teachers' willingness to im- plement technology enhanced learning in schools. The system facilitates preparation of classroom scenarios and the adhoc installation of networked collaborative sessions. We provided a graphical interface, which is usable for administration, monitoring, and for specification of a wide variety of different classroom situations with group work. The resulting graphical specifications are well suited to be re-used in the more formal learning design format IMS/LD; this is achieved by a auto- matable transformation of the scenarios to LD documents.