Recent evidence for the effectiveness of active learning interventions has led educators to advocate for widespread adoption of active learning in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses. Active learning interventions implement technology and collaboration to engage students actively with the content. Yet, it is unclear how these features contribute to their effe...

L2C Learning to Collaborate is an ongoing research project addressing the design of effective immersive simulation-based learning experiences supporting the development of collaboration competencies both at the individual and organisational level. The key characteristic of such advanced learning tools consists in the integration of psychological, motivational, cognitive, organizational, cultura...

Collaboration is considered as an essential element for effective learning since it enables learners to better develop their points of view and refine their knowledge. Our aim being to facilitate communities of practice members as learners, we argue that collaboration tools should provide personalization features and functionalities in order to fit the specific individual and community learning...

The work, presented in this paper, examines and discusses issues concerning the adoption of the ECLiP (Exploratory + Collaborative Learning in Programming) framework in the SCALE (Supporting Collaboration and Adaptation in a Learning Environment) environment in order to support and enhance learning in Introductory Programming courses. ECLiP provides guidelines for the design of an integrated se...

Project Summary Collaborative learning in general and Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) in particular can positively impact student learning. Several studies have shown significant impacts in SMET and other courses [28, 41, 48]. How it impacts student learning is still an open matter. We know that dialog has an impact on student learning [49, 31], but we know that that's not the ...

there is a growing trend to consider knowledge as an organizational resource important to a company competitive advantage. the knowledge based perspective can provide insights into both the opportunity to enhance organizational competence and the difficulties of engaging in joint activities with foreign partners. organizational learning is the detection and resolution of differences in knowledg...

Collaboration between peers is an important aspect of the learning process and can considerably augment learning in studying complex domains. To ensure that peer collaboration occurs within unfamiliar situations such as those provided by Virtual Learning Environments, support for collaborative activities needs to be offered to learners. This support can be provided using intelligent agents that...

Organizations are facing the challenge of transferring knowledge from experienced to novice employees and are seeking for solutions that avoid the loss of knowledge with retiring experts. A possible way for overcoming this challenge is having employees develop learning materials for their novice colleagues. Based on insights from both, education and collaboration research, designing structured ...

We have just completed a two year CoLabs Socrates Minerva project. In it our goal was to explore collaboration as a tool for learning and exploit innovative features of Imagine Logo for developing microworlds in which children would cooperate, explore and create things – either working face to face or working at a distance, even across cultural and language borders. Such open collaboration, how...