Advances in communications and software technology are driving the Internet to become an open and distributed computing platform able to provide diversified services which can be ubiquitously accessed by many users. Electronic learning-oriented services are well suited to be supported by and delivered through the Internet. They are strategic for enabling virtual universities, enhancing the skil...

The use of new technology must be combined with modern teaching practices to be effective. Collaborative learning is a general term employed for a variety of classroom practices designed to foster shared responsibility for a course. The teaching/learning process of software/database modeling subject areas can be greatly improved through the application of collaborative learning, but there are s...

Cooperative learning is characterized by communication and interaction in a group. Computer-supported cooperative/collaborative learning (CSCL) is a specific form doing away with previous spatial and temporal restrictions. At the starting point of our examinations lie known learning processes and their possible support through a CSCL system. Both the significance of different user models and th...

There are many theories useful for framing collaborative-learning research and they may in principle be irreducible to a single theory. Collaborativelearning research explores questions involving numerous distinct—though interacting—phenomena at multiple levels of description. The useful approach may be to clearly distinguish levels such as individual, small-group and community units of analysi...

The purpose of this study is to construct a web-based learning platform of Computer Support for Collaborative Design (CSCD) based on theories related to a constructivist learning environment model, mind mapping and computer-supported collaborative learning. The platform conforms to the needs of design students and provides effective tools for interaction and collaborative learning by integratin...

I-MINDS provides a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) infrastructure and environment for learners in synchronous learning and classroom management applications for instructors, for large classroom or distance education situations. For supporting the instructor, I-MINDS includes a teacher agent. The teacher agent allows the instructor to interact with students, manage Q&A sessions,...

The growing interests in the Internet and WWW attempt to extend the field of study from stand alone learning environment to collaborative or cooperative learning environment. In the light of recent explosive growth of information communication technology, the common platform for collaborative or cooperative activities should be discussed and considered in international community. Additionally, ...

This paper proposes a novel approach in integrating seemingly contradictory approaches of teaching and learning via collaborative and personalised learning activities by using augmented reality museum exhibits. The paper highlights the benefits that computer supported collaborative learning and computer supported personalised learning bring or promise to bring to the learner. A proposal is give...

Most of the articles published in the last years highlight teaching and learning approaches and technologies integrated in complex applications and present the concepts used for educational content creation and delivery. They refer to the approaches and methodologies used in self and collaborative learning, including problemand project-based learning. The proposal is focused on advanced concept...

Despite emphasis and progress in developing collaborative inquiry in computer-supported collaborative learning research, little attention has been given to examining how collective learning can be assessed in computer-supported collaborative learning classrooms, and how students can have agency in assessing their own collaborative process. We propose that assessments should capture both individ...