Collaborative learning tools for formal and informal engineering education

Microservices deployment of Rich Internet Applications is not a new research topic; many articles have been published and related innovative technologies released in the last years. Thus, the research work presented in this article is focused on surveying the current collaborative learning concepts and technologies and proposing a new virtual classware approach, implemented and deployed as a set of independent components responsible for specific collaborative learning services. While engineering education methodologies are complex, flexibility or openness should be considered as high priorities. Thus, an actual implementation, according to blended training scenarios, has been presented.