Technology provides new learning environments in which 21st-century skills such as collaboration are involved, and English becomes the language of communication interaction among participants. During lockdown caused by COVID-19 pandemic, students faced shift from face-to-face to online classes, made feel demotivated lost opportunities use meaningful environments. This article reports a qualitat...

This study attempted to test whether the use of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and innovative collaborative learning could be more effective than the use of traditional collaborative learning in improving students’ English proficiencies. A true experimental design was used in the study. Four randomly-assigned groups participated in the study: a traditional collaborative learning gro...

This study investigates the benefits of e-collaborative and collaborative writing tasks on the perception of Iranian EFL learners in a process-oriented approach. The study involved 74 intermediate Iranian EFL students at Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch. They were divided into three groups by random assignment as two experimental groups and one control group. The experimental groups were...

Our research objectives include constructing a collaborative learning support system that detects appropriate situation for a learner to join in a collaborative learning session, and forms a collaborative learning group appropriate for the situation dynamically. In this paper, we describe a system of concepts concerning learning goals expected to attain by learners through collaborative learnin...

This paper characterizes collaborative learning systems and identifies some of the dimensions of collaborative learning research. Overview Collaborative learning deals with instructional methods that seek to promote learning through collaborative efforts among students working on a given learning task. Computer Supported Collaborative learning (CSCL) delivers a collaborative environment that de...

This paper characterizes collaborative learning systems and identifies some of the dimensions of collaborative learning research. Overview Collaborative learning deals with instructional methods that seek to promote learning through collaborative efforts among students working on a given learning task. Computer Supported Collaborative learning (CSCL) delivers a collaborative environment that de...