INSCRIBE - College Notes Sharing Application

The lecture is still the primary teaching and learning form in university and will remain so due to its cost effectiveness. However, student disengagement caused by the traditional didactic style of lecture - with its one-way information flow allowing little or no interaction - prevents students from taking full advantage of this learning paradigm. Some work has been done to address this issue by re-designing lectures to incorporate more lecturer-and student interaction, but has yet to be widely adopted. In this paper, we present a novel approach to applying a student centered collaborative learning pedagogy into the lecture environment through a novel real-time collaborative notes sharing application Group Notes on Smartphones to let students voluntarily engage themselves by means of student-to-student interaction and also with the faculty members. Preliminary student feedback has shown that the approach is pedagogically and technically feasible and students are quite open to this approach due to its learning-sharing factor and peer motivation. Keywords: Android, IOS, Dart - Flutter, encryption, collaboration, Smartphones, education.