Productive collaboration is an integral component of socially constructed perspectives of learning. Yet effective collaboration is quite challenging and not without its own risks. Collaboration, both distributed and face-to-face, must be nurtured; technologies can support or undermine its positive growth in learning communities. We present an exploratory investigation of the types of social int...

Productive collaboration is an integral component of socially constructed perspectives of learning. Yet effective collaboration is quite challenging and not without its own risks. Collaboration, both distributed and face-to-face, must be nurtured; technologies can support or undermine its positive growth in learning communities. In this paper, we present an exploratory investigation of the type...

The present work focuses the interest of study in a naturally emerged and intense online community, this of ScratchR “programmers by choice” community, that actually practice collaborative learning in an authentic way. Our interest is not to support collaborative learning process, but to foster collaboration opportunities. We propose a personalized recommendation system based on a “collaborativ...

To facilitate learning in low-resource environments where children must share a single computer, we developed MultiLearn, an educational, single-display groupware system. Prior work has suggested that computer games can be effective for fostering learning [5] and qualitatively supports the benefit of collaboration over competition in a multiple-input, shared display environment [2]. Through Mul...

Interest in developing improved methods for mathematics instruction has increased since TIMSS and PISA. In our project, we investigate a new way to promote learning in mathematics: we enhanced the Cognitive Tutor Algebra, a computer-based intelligent tutoring system for mathematics at the high school level, to a collaborative learning setting. Although the Algebra Tutor has shown to increase le...

Giving useful recommendations to students to improve collaboration in a learning experience requires tracking and analyzing student team interactions, identifying the problems and the target student. Previously , we proposed an approach to track students and assess their collaboration, but it did not perform any decision analysis to choose a recommendation for the student. In this paper, we pro...