Supporting Awareness for Augmenting Participation in Collaborative Learning

Knowledge awareness (KA) has been proposed for increasing collaboration opportunities in an open ended and collaborative learning environment. KA consists of information about up-to-minute activities of other learners. For instance, it indicates when someone is looking at the same knowledge that learners are looking at. Multiple collaboration is concurrently realized through KA. This paper describes a concurrent collaborative learning environment supported by awareness, toward augmenting participation in collaborative learning. We tested and verified the effectiveness of this system in an experimental training.