The collaborative writing is an important task in distance education. For this reason, the implementation of one hypertext editor in TIDIA-Ae environment is indispensable. This tool is allowing the content production for all laboratories in TIDIA-Ae project.

CSCL software tools must provide support for group work and should be based on a collaborative learning technique. The PBL based CCCuento tool is introduced here. It is intended to support apprentices groups in the collaborative creation of stories in order to improve language use and development of writing skills. The tool follows a model, which includes several positive interdependencies and ...

When I talk to graduate students and colleagues about their use of collaborative learning, I often hear stories about when it doesn't work. No one's version of collaborative pedagogy is universally rewarding, of course, but I have found some approaches consistently more successful than others. Often, peer criticism consists of oral or hastily written comments by students in a classroom group; s...

Analysis of allographs (characters) and allograph combinations (words) is the key for obtaining the discriminating elements of handwriting. While allographs usually inhabit in words and segregation of a word into allographs is more subjective than objective, especially for cursive writing, analysis of handwritten words is a natural and better option. In this study, a handwritten word image is c...

The goal of our research is to provide computer support for distributed collaborative writing. Writers can be said to be distributed when they have distributed knowledge and skill, and they share that knowledge and skill in order to develop a draft; or, even when they have significant overlap in knowledge and skill, they distribute the work of producing the draft itself among them. But in this ...

writing sacred words of a text in the header or along the right margins of documents is of a long tradition in documentation of the iranian islamic period. the present article deals with the time of origin, developmental process, type of words and the name of this tradition. included among other issues covered in this study are the non-iranian origins and the iranian-islamic influence over the ...