Student collaboration in traditional classroom settings has been shown to contribute to learning gains, cognitive and metacognitive skills, and to accrue social advantages. However, creating effective cooperative learning environments is challenging. Forming groups expected to generate the most beneficial outcomes and monitoring or scaffolding group interactions is difficult, especially when st...

Collaboration activities are particularly difficult in e-learning environments, where the intention is to provide students with valuable learning experiences through working in teams and sharing a common goal. These activities are often conducted in an ad hoc manner with lack of proper assessment and control over learning outcomes. In this article, we propose the idea of enhancing the effective...

Socio-Constructivist learning theories are emphasizing the role of collaboration in learning process. Social-interaction and collaboration is seen to be a significant part of learning process. This is the reason why discussion areas or other tools that enable virtual collaboration are used in digital learning applications. Does these discussion areas itself enhance the collaboration? Does the f...

In this paper we propose the acquisition of a set of preferences of collaboration between classifiers based on decision trees. A classifier uses a well-known algorithm (k-NN with leaf-one-out) on its own knowledge base to generate a set of tuples with information about the object to be classified, the number of similar precedents, the maximum similarity, and about if it is a situation of collab...

The current Learning Management Systems used in e-learning lack intelligent mechanisms which can be used by an instructor to group learners during an online group task based on the learners‟ collaboration competence level. In this paper, we discuss a novel approach for grouping students in an online learning group task based on individual learners‟ collaboration competence level. We demonstrate...

background: a combination of teaching modalities instead of a single method may enhance learning. the purpose of the current study was to evaluate the effectiveness of integrating e-learning modules into the syllabi of clinical contents from different clinical majors at different levels. methods: a total of 108 undergraduate students enrolled from various clinical majors, and participated via u...