Collaborative practices that bring researchers and community participants together are favored by a social constructionist meta-theory. Specific features of research activity in the human sciences are discussed relevant to the contributions of theory to collaborative practice. It is argued that collaborative practice consists of alternating movements between two modes of action. In the first mo...

This article describes a research project in the area of cooperative telelearning. It summarizes the characteristics and results of a groupware-supported international teleseminar with 14 virtual student groups. On the basis of this field research and a theoretical model, the requirements and advantages of telepresence on effective and efficient learning are considered empirically. Thereafter, ...

Distributed, collaborative decision making is becoming more common in many organizations. It occurs for a multitude of decision types, and is enabled by IT support. However no systematic study of the use and impact of such IT-based environments on decision outcomes has been done. In this research I develop a taxonomy of information environments and the information and coordination mechanisms ma...

ABSTRACT We have analyzed data from a field study in collaborative telelearning. The participants were students from three educational institutions in Norway. The goal of the study was to investigate how the students used a set of groupware tools to coordinate learning activities. We have used concepts from collaborative telelearning (Bourdeau & Wasson, 1997) and coordination mechanisms (Schmid...

The increasing presence of multiple Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the classroom does not guarantee an improvement of the learning experiences of students, unless it is also accompanied by pedagogically effective orchestration of those technologies. In order to help teachers in this endeavour, it can be useful to understand how this orchestration takes place in real-world c...

INTRODUCTION The Dimensional Overlap Model (D.O.) [3] and StimulusResponse Compatibility (SRC) [1,2,4] are two interrelated areas of study from experimental psychology that investigate the relationships between human response performance and the nature of the stimuli that elicits these responses. Decades of research in these areas have shown that the relationship between the stimuli and the req...