Project DIAPLASIS (Greek Acronym for “Online Platform for School – Family Collaboration”) is a Doctoral Thesis aiming to develop an online system that allows collaboration between school and family, and to evaluate possible learning results in a two-year intervention with at-risk students. At least 9% of students in Cyprus are found to be at risk of failure in Language and Mathematics. Research...

We present e-collaboration as an innovative e-learning concept, which provides three main potentials for e-business qualification. Collaboration in the virtual classroom develops the soft skills necessary for working in global virtual teams. Project experiences, based on authentic case studies, help students to transfer their academic knowledge to the e-business application level. Our problem-b...

Message-based Web Service architecture provides a unified approach to applications and Web Services that incorporates the flexibility of messaging and distributed components. We propose SMMV and MMMV collaboration as the general architecture of collaboration based on a Web service model, which accommodates both instructor-led learning and participatory learning. This approach derives from our m...

The adoption of Learning Management Systems to create virtual learning communities is a unstructured form of allowing collaboration that is rapidly growing. Compared to other systems that structure interactions, these environments provide data of the interaction performed at a very low level. For assessment purposes, this fact poses some difficulties to derive higher lever indicators of collabo...

Within organizations, people learn through exchanging knowledge. This kind of task (named collaboration) is important for the organizational learning. Collaboration can be supported by Information Technology tools as chats, newsgroups, forums and e-mailing lists. However, this kind of support only enables message exchange, lacking to help people in the learning process. This work presents the a...

Project DoCTA focuses on understanding interaction in a set of collaborative telelearning scenarios aimed at teacher training. Rooted in a sociocultural perspective, two scenarios were studied from thirteen views including ethnographic flavoured studies focused on understanding work organisation, usability studies of groupware systems, evaluations of computer logs, and questionnaire studies. Th...

This paper presents a new adaptive m-learning model supporting collaborative and context-aware learning. A seamless integration between learners’ location information and a set of associated learning context dimensions is used to facilitate the provision of pervasive and ubiquitous learning services. The new model adopts nearest search algorithm in order to group spatially related mobile learne...

Chemistry problems can be tough nuts to crack for students, particularly when the problems are of a mathematical type. Collaborative inquiry activities that are embedded in computer-supported learning environments can provide students with opportunities to construct the kind of knowledge required to solve complex chemistry problems. Yet, directing learners’ collaborative inquiry in computer-sup...