Integrating Cloud Services to Support the Formation of Informal Learning Groups

CloudServices like Google Drive, Brainstormer, Doodle are meanwhile frequently used as tools for learning in various contexts. They provide storage facilities, production tools and particularly also coordination support. The management of these heterogeneous tools is a challenge for the individual users as well as for the usage in groups. This paper presents a mobile application to support the learners in the formation of informallearninggroups and integrates heterogeneous cloudservices to supportgroupformation and further group work in a campus environment. Furthermore, this paper tackles the ambiguity of the term cloud application and tries to provide a definition and discusses the process of bringing the Brainstormer Web application into the cloud for integration with the mobile application.

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