There are many theories useful for framing collaborative-learning research and they may in principle be irreducible to a single theory. Collaborativelearning research explores questions involving numerous distinct—though interacting—phenomena at multiple levels of description. The useful approach may be to clearly distinguish levels such as individual, small-group and community units of analysi...

10.1080/17439880902923564 Learning, Media and Technology 743-9884 (print)/1743-9892 (online) Original Article 2 09 Taylor & Francis 34 0 0002009 ynds yGrant .G [email protected] Alongside other forms of social software, wikis have been heralded as supporting more collaborative and democratic teaching and learning practices. This paper explores, through a case study approach, the use of wikis t...

A common computer-based collaborative learning approach is to simply introduce contemporary computermediated communication technology into the classroom to support prescribed learning activities. This approach assumes that all students collaborate in similar ways and that presentday technology is su cient to accommodate all collaboration forms. This view is super® cial and limiting. Students c...

Intelligent pedagogical agents (IPA) are aimed to support learning in virtual worlds. Motivations for adopting IPAs in virtual worlds are to compensate for lack of human pedagogical presence, to improve student engagement, and having autonomous support. Given named challenges to realizing IPAs in virtual worlds, a proposed solution approach is to simulate IPAs with targeted scenarios with intel...

In this article we present an architecture for the integration of tutoring approaches and process scaffolds into existing collaborative applications. The architecture allows to combine existing research on explicit representations of collaborative learning processes with the availability of existing and tested collaborative learning environments. The architecture allows to control the learning ...

The purpose of this study is to support the learning activity in the Internet learning space. In this paper, we examine the knowledge management and the knowledge representation of the learning information for the collaborative learning support. RAPSODY-EX (REX) is a distributed learning support environment organized as a learning infrastructure. REX can effectively carry out the collaborative ...

Question and Answering systems and crowd learning are becoming an increasingly popular way of organising and exchanging expert knowledge in specific domains. Since they are expected to have a significant impact on online education [14], we will investigate to which degree the necessary conditions for collaborative learning emerge in open Q&A platforms like Stack Exchange, in which communities g...

This paper addresses the challenge and potential of online higher and continuing education, of fostering and promoting, in a global perspective across time and space, democratic values working for a better world. Such values include mutual political and intercultural understanding, collaboration, and tolerance to cultural and ethical diversity, and they are mediated through collaborative dialog...

In this study, we constructed an environment conducive to enhancing education efficacy through an improvement of collaborative learning in higher education. In the process of collaborative learning, one faces a variety of situations, for instance, “discussion on learning themes” and “work to draw up materials and reports pertaining to learning.” One of the styles of collaborative learning is to...