Identity formation/transformation as the process of collaborative learning through AlgoArena
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This paper demonstrates the process of identity formation in the collaborative learning of programming through AlgoArena, which is educational software for learning programming. AlgoArena is a collaborative educational system through which learners can learn programming by participating together in the formation of a community of practice and their identity in it. This paper investigates how a learner’s identity is formed and transformed in the process of collaborative learning through AlgoArena. Participatory observation and close analysis of conversation reveals contingent and local characteristics of identity formation, i. e., learning. Keywords—situated learning, software education, identity, interaction analysis
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