Introduction Network-based, distributed collaborative tools and environments for medical practice are becoming more practical[1], yet most existing commercial groupware is either proprietary or of limited functionalities for manipulating, presenting, and sharing multimedia information such as medical images, text/graphics documents, and audio. We describe here an integrated real-time groupware ...

This paper operationalized the notion of knowledge convergence and assessed quantitatively how much knowledge convergence occurred during collaborative learning. Knowledge convergence was defined as an increase in common knowledge where common knowledge referred to the knowledge that all collaborating partners had. Twenty pairs of college students collaborated to learn a science text about the ...

Design choices for collaborative tools are often made on a technical or arbitrary basis. In some cases, such choices have a pedagogical justification; we posit that a design rationale appealing to theoretical concepts in cognitive and pedagogical sciences is sounder than one that makes consensus choices based on availability of technology. We explain how a cognitive model of cooperation helped ...

There are difficulties faced by students in learning reading of the narrative text, such as to find details, translating new words, finding main ideas, and making inferences. This research was conducted see effect Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) on comprehension text applying ‘preview’ for brainstorming, ‘click clunk’ ‘get gist’ ‘wrap up’ It is a quasi-experimental with experimental contr...

Software developers spend a majority of their time using a development environment coupled with a variety of collaborative tools. They use integrated development environments (IDEs) in different editing and debugging activities while solving particular technical problems or developing different pieces of software. These programming environments evolved from commandline tools, to text-based IDEs...

In this study, which is based on the fact that nature of learning and should be understood basis social constructivism, interaction collaboration in language development are explored digital games discussed as an instructional technology. For developed with mind, effects educational change for learners have not yet been fully explored. The supported reciprocal activities related to reading comp...