The Effects of Types of Decision-Making and Collaborative Information Processing on Collaboration Performance, and Social Support and Collaboration Load among Collaborators in CSCL

This study investigate the process of thinking required by individual learners in collaborative learning and the process of collaborative learning from the perspective of information processing and suggest a specific process of collaborative information processing with information externalization to make effective collaboration performance. In particular, the body of research mainly focused on the optimal process of information processing on the basis of individual learners’ types of decision-making.