In the context of a web-based collaborative working environment, any interactive activity among the actors themselves or between the actor and the system in the collaborative workspace produces a set of Collaborative Traces (CT). A collaborative trace reflects the group’s working experience from past actions. Indeed, systematical experience reuse in organizations can sustain the complex project...

Researchers and teachers are increasingly in agreement that classrooms should adopt more open-ended, ill-structured, creative problem solving pedagogies (Kapur, 2008). However, we lack sufficient understandings of how to assess the variegated outputs of learning activities that afford students considerable discretion over what they will produce, and of the mechanisms through which group work ca...

Values play an integral role in design: they inform the kinds of trade-offs the designer makes when considering different solutions; they create a basis for the client to assess how a particular artifact may fit into their lives; they are an important part of negotiating a common understanding in collaborative design settings. In this paper, we presented a grounded analysis of a collaborative a...

formation of collaborative groups in a the self of the three steps method The aim of this paper is to present problem-based learning environment. The self-formation of collaborative groups is based on sharing of accountability among students for solving instructional problems. The steps of the method are planning collaborative problem solving, self-evaluation of students, and building collabora...