Group Awareness in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environments

Group Awareness Widgets for Enhancing Social Interaction in Computer-supported Collaborative Learning Environments: Design and Implementation

1 Karel Kreijns, Open University of the Netherlands, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Heerlen, The Netherlands, [email protected] 2 Paul A. Kirschner, Open University of the Netherlands, Educational Technology Expertise Center, Heerlen, The Netherlands, [email protected] Abstract  Our research on enhancing and fostering social interaction in asynchronous distributed learning groups (DLGs) u...

Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Environments : Introduction

The goal of this Workshop is to present aspects of the research that takes place in different laboratories in Greece, that combines a concern for conceptual change in science and mathematics with an interest in the implementation of relevant CSCL environments. The accumulated experience brings forth the opportunity to discuss the new affordances that are provided by the availability of CSCL sof...

Providing Group Knowledge Awareness in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: Insights into Learning Mechanisms

In collaboration, group knowledge awareness (i.e. being informed about the partners’ knowledge) is used to effectively communicate and to efficiently coordinate interaction. Computer-mediated collaboration impairs the establishment of group knowledge awareness. Technological support for group knowledge awareness can compensate for this shortcoming and is realized in a group knowledge awareness ...

Computer-supported Collaborative Learning: an Approach to Powerful Learning Environments

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

omputer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is an area of the learning sciences. It is concerned with studying how people can learn together with the help of computers. As we will see in this chapter, such a simple statement conceals considerable complexity. The interplay of learning with technology turns out to be quite intricate. The inclusion of collaboration, computer mediation and dist...