Computer Supported Collaborative Social Environment for Education, Training and Work

The increasing employment of collaborated and blended learning techniques in educational institutes indicate that this kind of solution maximizes investments whether the growth of students demands more resources and teachers. Collaboration is working together towards a common goal at different times (time flexibility), in different locations (spatial flexibility), at different companies and educational/training institutes (inter company/institutions relationship) in different functions (multi disciplinary work). Principles are: support collaboration within the entire team: sharing ideas, minimizing collocation, making jobs easier; and helping knowledge building. Internet accessible virtual computer environments allow social interaction as well as medium for education, training and work as soon as the environment supports this kind of interactions. Therefore an environment that supports these interactions is envisioned by the authors and currently under research for future development. Index Terms – Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Mixed Reality, Virtual Social Environments, Blended Learning.