ProBoPortable: A Cellular Phone Software to Promote Emergent Division of Labor

This paper deals with a design of a cellular phone software, called "ProBoPortable", which displays an awareness of task status and division of labor in project-based learning (PBL). According to the situated learning theory, learners learn not only the cultural practice but also the "legitimate learning strategy," which refers to the way in which learners can learn effectively in the community using their meta cognition. Based on this concept, learners are expected to monitor the actual status of their achievement by themselves, and reorganize their division of labors ad-lib in order to improve their learning in PBL. The authors developed a cellular phone software "which cooperates with a Web-based groupware in order to enhance learners\´ reorganization of their learning activity from the viewpoint of the division of labor in their PBL. ProBoPortable is expected to enhance the awareness of the status of learners\´ collaboration in PBL