Collaborative learning environments are mainly based on constructivist instructional design theories where students construct their own knowledge by interacting with their environment. The so-called virtual communities constitute and approach that facilitates the constructivist learning within these environments. In this context, the learning process consists of authentic participation in the a...

Virtual Learning Environments are increasingly used in education to encourage collaborative learning and engagement with the learning material. However, collaborative activity is often minimal and superficial. We propose a multi-agent collaborative virtual learning environment in which the agents support communication skills and collaboration among and with learners. Our framework is underpinne...

introduction: collaborative methods of learning in the university have been a successful and the main aspects of the students’ engagement. the purpose of this study was to determine university engagement and collaborative learning in nursing students of kerman university of medical sciences. materials and methods: this research was a descriptive correlation study on a total of 238 nursing stude...

This paper reports on considerations and steps towards standardization [2] of the collaborative learning environment. This standardization will extend and widen the field of applications possible within the collaborative learning paradigm, and will make possible the usage of the fruits of years of research and individual implementations of the concept of collaborative learning, from our own lab...

The success of a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environment in improving student knowledge depends on factors like student attributes (e.g., ability and motivation) and elements of the CSCL environment (e.g., group size and group formation). Better understanding of the individual and combined effects of these factors on the learning outcome of students would help: (1) research...

In this paper, we explore the learning that occurred in two types of collaborative learning environments in a seventh grade life sciences classroom: an intra-group environment and an intergroup environment. Students used both types of collaboration tools, each tuned to the needs of the task they were doing within or across groups. We found that the learning outcomes in the two collaborative set...

Ð Collaborative learning of visual information with computers can be particularly beneficial for acquiring complex and abstract knowledge. This article describes a computer-supported collaborative visual learning environment called TurtleGraph that was designed to assist learners in capturing the concept of recursion as well as recursive programming skills. In this distributed learning environm...