The requirements on infrastructures for digital learning are changing as learners become more and more mobile. Ad hoc interactions, dynamically changing learning teams and communication and collaboration centered learning have to be considered. In contrast to traditional digital learning environments focused on simulation, content representation and distance learning support, we focuse on colla...

In this paper, we present the basic features guiding the development of a web-based CSCL environment, which (i) enables the students to work on collaborative learning activities concerning various subject matters with different orientation, (ii) guides and helps the students at the communication and at the learning level through intelligent agents, (iii) supports alternative models of collabora...

Despite the fact that collaboration is as well studied as any instructional strategy, online collaborative learning efforts have been slow to succeed. Client-server computing models are currently giving way to newer peer-to-peer models. At the same time, traditional conceptions of online learning as electronic page turning are falling to the learning object model. The new paradigm of peer-to-pe...

BACKGROUND A growing number of patients require overview and management in both primary and secondary care. This situation requires that primary and secondary care professionals have well developed collaborative skills. While knowledge about interprofessional collaboration and education is rising, little is known about intraprofessional collaboration and education between physicians of various ...

Individual differences in learners’ learning styles can have a significant effect on their acceptance of collaboration technologies to facilitate the sharing of learning information in technology-based collaborative learning. There is, however, a lack of understanding of the impact of learning styles on the acceptance of open learner models as a collaboration technology for information sharing....

Collaboration scripts are usually implemented as parts of a particular collaborative-learning platform. Therefore, scripts of demonstrated effectiveness are hardly used with learning platforms at other sites, and replication studies are rare. The approach of a platformindependent description language for scripts that allows for easy implementation of the same script on different platforms has n...

Collaboration scripts are usually implemented as parts of a particular collaborative-learning platform. Therefore, scripts of demonstrated effectiveness are hardly used with learning platforms at other sites, and replication studies are rare. The approach of a platformindependent description language for scripts that allows for easy implementation of the same script on different platforms has n...

In knowledge-based economy, knowledge has a public good and non-rivalry nature. Firms build their own knowledge stock not only by means of internal R&D and collaboration with partners, but also by means of previously spilled over knowledge of other firms and public research laboratories (such as universities). Firms based on their absorptive capacity, and level of intra-industry and extra-indus...

In this presentation, we share the experience of a partnership project between two teams representing Azerbaijani and American higher education institutions. The researchers (a) examine the challenges of collaborative work in the context of cultural differences related to applying learner-centered pedagogy, sustaining collaboration and managing learning process, and (b) introduce the strategies...