This study was conducted to determine whether or not collaborative hypertext affects learning outcomes in the learning of basic concepts in informatics. The researchers organized two university courses about the basics in informatics using collaborative hypertext and two courses without collaborative hypertext. Learning was analyzed, and this paper presents results utilizing the tests of struct...

Modern on-line collaborative learning environments are to enable and scale the involvement of an increasing large number of single/group participants who can geographically be distributed, and who need to transparently share a huge variety of both software and hardware distributed learning resources. As a result, collaborative learning applications are to overcome important non-functional requi...

LORI (learning object review instrument) is an evaluation framework designed to support collaborative critique of multimedia learning resources. In this chapter, the interactions among reviewers using LORI are framed as a form of collaborative argumentation. Research on collaborative evaluation of learning resources has found that reviewers’ quality ratings tend to converge as a result of their...

introduction: t his study aimed to investigate the male and female students’ learning styles of classroom participation and these styles’ differences between humanities and science majors. methods: 1039 individuals were selected through the proportional stratified random sampling method among undergraduate and graduate students in humanities (n=421) and science (n=618) faculties of tehran unive...

Collaborative Learning is emerging as an important learning method. Computer and network supported collaborative learning systems and environments are starting to appear. In order that these systems contribute positively into the educational process, it is important to consider quality requirements. This paper presents the CLE (Collaborative Learning Evaluation), a framework for evaluating Coll...

Hypertext appears to be a powerful cognitive tool supporting knowledge construction. A study was conducted to determine whether or not collaborative hypertext affects learning outcomes in the learning of basic concepts in informatics. We organized two courses about the basics in informatics using collaborative hypertext (experimental groups). Simultaneously, we ran two courses without collabora...

Collaborative learning involves small groups of students working together to solve problems for the purpose of learning. There are a large number of researches that focus on the technical aspects of computer-mediated environments for collaborative learning. Very few studies have examined the design of Web 2.0 technologies to support collaborative learning using an activity-oriented approach. In...

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This study proposes a web-based collaborative inquiry learning system. This system uses the Worldwide web (WWW) as a source of knowledge exploration, and provides exploratory problems to guide students to think and explore. A concept map is used as a tool of anchoring and representing knowledge during inquiry process. In the process of learning, learners are allowed to exchange the evidence the...