The aim of this research is to provide an Intelligent Collaborative Learning System (ICLS) with the knowledge and skills to promote effective student interaction in a group. Students learning effectively in groups encourage each other to ask questions, explain and justify their opinions, articulate their reasoning, and elaborate and reflect upon their knowledge. The benefits of collaborative le...

This study examines the formation and change of collaborative learning social networks in a distributed learning community. A social network perspective is employed to understand how collaborative networks evolved over time when 31 distributed learners collaborated on a design project using a computer-mediated communication system during two semesters. Special attention was paid to how pre-exis...

This study aims to theoretically explore whether Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) is an effective collaborative learning platform, empirically examine the occurrence of knowledge creation in MMOG game-play, and conceptually advocate the research potential of MMOG game-based collaborative learning. Although a growing number of researchers have started to use MMOG as a new generation of e...

Net-based collaborative learning discourses often suffer from deficiencies such as lack of coherence and coordination. It is suggested that the provision of two functionalities, referencing and typing, which learners may optionally use to ground their contributions during a chatbased discourse, can improve collaborative learning. In particular, we examined if goal focus, type of task and group ...

As promising benefits of online collaborative learning are evidenced, a digital learning community is taking its place as a popular learning environment. Despite the many benefits of collaborative learning, learners experience ambivalence. The promising benefits of a learning community cannot be obtained without purposeful facilitation. The primary goal of this study is to see if activity theor...

Collaborative Learning is an effective activity-based, constructivism-based and experience-based learning method. Recently, various computer and network supported educational environments are incorporating collaborative learning activities. In order to design, develop and select effective collaborative learning systems it is necessary to consider quality requirements. This paper presents the CL...

A limitation of current Web-based collaborative learning is the restricted ability of students to create and share individual annotations with annotated documents. Applying Web 2.0 collaborative annotation systems and analyzing students’ annotation behavior has attracted attention to improve collaborative learning. This study designed a personalized annotation management system 2.0 (PAMS 2.0) f...

In this paper we describe the use of a social network application (Facebook) with individual open learner models at university level, to support collaborative learning. Results suggest that Facebook and open learner models can be used together to support collaborative learning. It also suggests that Facebook and open learner models can support sociability in collaborative learning: both were fo...

-Collaborative learning is a kind of group learning mode where members of group learn any concept or topic through communication and discussions. Current researches on collaborative learning paid little attention to the functionalities of group members. In order to solve this problem, this paper utilizes a Learning Blog (LBlog) to share experience and viewpoints of group members, and achieve le...