This research examines two different kinds of feedback-mechanism to scaffold problem solving as well as interaction in computer-mediated seminars. An automated feedback mechanism has been used to enhance interaction and group wellbeing during computer supported collaborative learning. We tracked individual contribution behaviour as well as learners’ motivation during collaborative problemsolvin...

Dynamic assessment (DA) as an alternative to psychometric-based testing focuses on the collaborative dialogue between the learners and the mediator to move the learners from their current capabilities. This study represents a web-based qualitative inquiry in online DA which aims at addressing the inadequacy of the diagnostic feedback of the web-based DIALANG test in reflecting learners’ potenti...

This paper describes a design process to support the development of a learning collaboratory, a distributed, computer-based, virtual space for learning and work. A learning collaboratory: as a distributed distance learning environment, offers tremendous opportunities to expand the way people teach and learn and to broaden educational opportunities to an ever increasing range of learners. The ch...

Background: Cooperative and Collaborative Learning approach with online programs is useful in response to rising demand for university educational system. This study evaluates the use of internet and computer in collaborative teaching and learning process for post graduate nursing students. Method: This is a correlation descriptive study. The population in the study is based on census sampling ...

This paper presents a model of collaborative telelearning and describes how coordination theory has provided a framework for the analysis of actor (inter)dependencies in this scenario. The model is intended to inform the instructional design of learning scenarios, the technological design of the telelearning environment, and the design of intelligent agents to mediate or to support the mediatio...

Despite obvious domination of asynchronous collaborative technologies, especially for virtual classrooms and distance education, the work presented in this paper is based on the assumption that some students will still prefer the experience of on-campus, faceto-face collaborative learning. For those students a new synchronous collaborative environment is created by combining an innovative metho...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of using synchronous and asynchronous communication tools in online group activities to develop collaborative learning skills. An experimental study was implemented on a sample of faculty of education students in Mansoura University. The sample was divided into two groups, a group studied using synchronous communication tools, and the othe...

Based on a collaborative approach to learning, a student cohort taking an introductory level University course in computing was provided with information and asynchronous communications technology (including learning resources, e-mail, bulletin board and FAQ), as a means of enhancing their collaborative efforts on a web authoring exercise within a flexible learning environment. The qualitative ...

This paper identifies issues in computer-support for collaborative authoring of hyperdocuments and shows how SEPIA, a cooperative authoring environment, addresses these issues. First, hyperdocuments can be used to create and maintain technical documentation. Second, activity spaces support the cognitive and social processes involved in the creation of hyperdocuments. Third, a shared hyperdocume...