Mobile Coursework Coordination Deploying the Concept of Agent-mediated Personal Knowledge Management in Learning Environment

With the current trend of spending time socialising via mobile applications, students at institutes of higher learning often seek new knowledge and manage their learning from the virtual world. From the concept of personal learning and social learning environment, it is found that personal knowledge management (PKM) processes occurred in this virtual environment, in which opportunities of expanding new media technology is foreseen. Despite the time spent in interacting with each other on the progress of the group projects, they still face difficulties in coursework coordination, in terms of getting updates or receiving shares of updates on the progress by members of their groups. This often happens when the group members seldom meet up due to difference in schedule or having less time in class together, since most students are from various backgrounds with various levels of course undertaken. This paper highlights the concept of PKM in the learning environment, using the GUSC Model as a tool for functions deployment in the mobile coursework coordination application. A prototype called Progres was developed to test the concept, in which this paper is based on. The outcome of this paper is a conceptual model on GUSC deployment in mobile coursework coordination using nodal approach.