Today’s society is technology motivated and the educational institutions call for new pedagogical ideas. An education process over hauling needed in all aspects of like curriculum improvement, teaching learning aspect, assessment, evaluation procedures, etc. One basic requirements future to prepare learners participation a network, information which knowledge will be most critical resource soci...

The collaborative virtual environments are an important category of CSCW system (groupware) and has become increasingly popular for supporting group work and development of a wide variety of applications in different areas. Currently, there is not a model to build these virtual environments taking into account the approach of the CSCW/groupware. This article proposes to create a framework and t...

This chapter describes an explorative study carried out to gain response from distance students on their experiences with collaborative learning in asynchronous computersupported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments. In addition, this study also attempts to have a good grip of crucial aspects concerning collaborative learning. The study was undertaken among distance learners from the Open...

Plastic user interfaces are intentionally developed to automatically adapt themselves to changes in the user’s working context. Although some Web single-user interactive systems already integrate some plastic capabilities, this research topic remains quasi-unexplored in the domain of Computer Supported Cooperative Work. This paper is centered on prototyping a plastic collaborative whiteboard, w...

In this article, a quantitative method for evaluating the effects of groupware usage on the emergence of shared mental action models (SMAM) is introduced and demonstrated. SMAM are defined as individual cognitive representations of goals, functions, states, and forms of a common work process in which a team member is involved. They servefordescription,explanation,andpredictionof thecurrentandfu...

This paper investigates some of the issues which will determine the viability of the world-wide web as an infrastructure for cooperative work. In fact, taking a weak definition of collaboration, the web is already a very successful collaborative environment. In addition, it is already being used as the basis for experimental and commercial groupware. The paper takes this as a starting point and...

In this paper is described how computer supported cooperative work can be used to enhance project development memory, focusing on software development. The collaboration model that is presented is based upon the concepts of communication, coordination and cooperation. Each of these concepts is analyzed regarding software specification. The paper presents some examples of systems that seek to ca...

This paper analyses transformations in collaborative activities that a computersupported collaborative writing system introduces into co-authors’ practices, and, discusses implications for the design of collaborative tools for writing. The analysis is grounded in user studies of four different groups of co-authors writing an academic report during two different collaborative situations. Two gro...