Collaborative product design is nowadays a trend of advanced manufacturing technology. Collaborative product design is a knowledge-intensive activity; knowledge management in collaborative product design has been focused. Existing literatues maily focus on knowledge management systems in collaborative design, other aspects of design activity is rarely paid attention to. The framework of activit...

language teachers usually face issues regarding the most effective methods of teaching. teaching language to nonnative speakers of english involves certain problems and challenges at all levels of instruction. due to the unsatisfactory results of focus on forms and focus on meaning instructions and their inevitable inadequacies, focus on form instruction along with its multiple techniques are r...

Background: Infertility is deemed as a crisis, which typically involves both minor and major losses requiring different coping strategies to successfully adjust, adapt and preserve the emotional balance. Alternative ways has been recommended to cope with this problem in infertile couples. The present study was designed to examine the effect of collaborative counseling on problemfocused coping s...

Learning systems focused on collaborative learning are often described in terms of formal and informal learning, however definitions of formal and informal learning vary, which makes it difficult to compare systems that may have been described using different perspectives. In this paper we present a framework for describing formality in e-learning systems, which can account for the most common ...

During the last years an increased interest has been observed on tools analyzing collaborative interactions that could be useful for researchers, teachers, or even students. The paper presents such a tool, based on the formally defined Collaborative Activity Function (CAF). The empirical evaluation of CAF is also presented. The evaluation is focused on teachers using CAF during and after sessio...

Research has focused significantly in enabling the Web (WWW) for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). However, surfing, the most common use in the WEB, remains an individual, rather than group activity. Previous attempts to provide collaborative browsing capability constrain some users to the command of a selected user who controls the browsers of others. We adapt the technology of uncon...

Collaborative learning involves small groups of students working together to solve problems for the purpose of learning. A large number of studies have focused on the technical aspects of computer-mediated environments for collaborative learning. This research distinguishes from other studies by employing a social learning approach. In this research, activity theory was used as a design framewo...

The current study was an attempt to investigate the effect of performing Focus on Form (FoF), Focus on Meaning (FoM), and Focus on Forms (FoFs) instructions on the development of collocational knowledge among Iranian intermediate EFL learners, and to explore any significant difference on the achievement of the participants' collocational knowledge among three groups. In so doing, 107 female int...