This research concerns the representation issue in collaborative learning environments Our basic claim is that knowledge representation is not only fundamental to machine learning as shown by AI researchers but also essential to human learning in particular human metalearning few existing learning support systems however provide represen tations which are intended to help the learner make sense...

Writing is a form of communication. Writing together is a process of negotiating for content and meaning of a text. Tools to support collaborative writing must take into consideration the communication which takes place both around and through the text. An extended field study of two groups of four grade six students was carried out to explore the impact of a shared text editor on communication...

Due to the new possibilities they open up for collaborative writing in education, wikis have received much attention the last few years. As a result, teachers have used wikis to achieve various educational purposes, such as wikis for online courses, teacher evaluation, or class project. However, the novelty and popularity of a technology do not automatically imply its suitability in educational...

Recently, wikis have been claimed to facilitate collaborative-writing projects and bring positive impact on student learning. While most previous exploratory studies conducted in L2 classrooms focused on students’ perceptions and their collaborative process, students’ produced texts have seldom been carefully examined from linguistic perspectives. To aim towards a more comprehensive understandi...

Learning about subject matter and about writing by collaboratively authoring an electronic document is an important variant of computer-supported collaborative learning. Collaborative writing is particularly often practiced in Higher Education. Our research has the goal to develop comprehensive software support tools for collaborative discipline-based writing, and to study how the team writing ...

background and objective: co-authorship on writing articles is one of the indicators of reliability in scientific articles. due to the lack of information regarding to the rate of participation of the authors of articles in the ” iranian journal of pathology” this research with the aim of the survey of collaborative coefficients of article authors in this journal  from 2006 to 2012 was performe...

With the growth of e-learning and distance education, there is an increasingly pressing need for research and writing on the pedagogy of e-learning today. Teams are, or should be, an integral component of e-learning. This book develops this concept by investigating many issues around teams in the virtual and hybrid classroom, bringing together in a single accessible source a variety of current ...

This study was aimed to compare long-term effects of collaborative and individual task planning on Persian-speaking EFL learners’ writing performance, using Brown and Bailey’s (1985) rating scale. Therefore, a group of 90 upper-intermediate EFL learners in collaborative task planning, individual task planning, and control groups took part in the study. In the experimental groups, the participan...