Collaborative learning enables individual learners to combine their own expertise, experience and ability to accomplish a mutual learning goal. The grouping of learners, and learning from social interactions with peer-learners, are two basic characteristics of collaborative learning. For individual learners to benefit from collaborative learning, individual learners with different characteristi...

Collaborative learning enables individual learners to combine their own expertise, experience and ability to accomplish a mutual learning goal. The grouping of learners, and learning from social interactions with peer-learners, are two basic characteristics of collaborative learning. For individual learners to benefit from collaborative learning, individual learners with different characteristi...

When collaborators are doing a task and then they interactively explore some subtask that emerges, they are collaborating beneath the surface of the task. Depth of collaboration refers to both the frequency of, and the degree to which, students collaborate beneath the surface. In this paper we examine the notion of depth in relation to collaborative learning. We provide evidence that the extent...

in 2000, an evaluation of iranian elementary education revealed that it did not successfully prepare students for the future. the failure was attributed to the teacher centered, content-oriented education system. in 2001, the iranian ministry of education began a pilot project that introduced an alternative curriculum, known as “global education,” with unicef’s participation. global education, ...

In the collaborative learning environment, the learners will produce certain awareness within the group based on all kinds of relevant information, that is, collaborative-learning awareness. Through survey method, the research tries to understand the status quo of collaborative-learning awareness and to explore the structural components of collaborative-learning awareness and the relationship b...

The purpose of this study is to explore the architecture for a collaborative learning environment, in which individual learning and collaborative learning are smoothly connected. We proposed a composition model of a collaborative workplace, and a management model for action in the collaborative learning space and the state of learning context. Based on the ides, in this paper we describe a

Our research objectives include constructing a collaborative learning support system that detects appropriate situation for a learner to join in a collaborative learning session, and forms a collaborative learning group appropriate for the situation dynamically. In this paper, we describe the outline of a system of concepts concerning learning goals expected to attain by learners through collab...

We aim at supporting the complex instructional design process for collaborative learning. We adopt learning theories as a basis for designing, analyzing, and evaluating the collaborative learning session. We have brought the ontological engineering technique into our approach. Up to the present, we have built a collaborative learning ontology and formulated collaborative learning models in term...

Learning Management Systems (LMS) are facing challenges to improve its traditional focus on individual learning towards social learning. Despite the great success in distributing learning materials and managing students, the availability of the read and write features of social networking applications had encouraged educators to move their learning spaces toward a more interactive applications....

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...