Virtual Learning Environments are increasingly used in education to encourage collaborative learning and engagement with the learning material. However, collaborative activity is often minimal and superficial. We propose a multi-agent collaborative virtual learning environment in which the agents support communication skills and collaboration among and with learners. Our framework is underpinne...

Generally, as ELT teachers, we are concerned with the use of the Internet to enhance language learning. Many of its features and functions have been utilized to foster collaborative learning. Many studies have reported such a learning to be desirable. Obviously, the Internet provides ample and exciting opportunities for learners to engage reality by using English with people from other countrie...

Social/collaborative learning is a learning procedure that is student-centred and involves a task-based and activity-based approach that collaboratively provides several advantages such as: communication, interpersonal and social co-operation, sharing, caring, openness, creativity, management, practicality, responsibility, involvement and participation. Social and collaborative learning improve...

This contribution proposes software infrastructure to support new types of learning methodologies and resources based on collaborative knowledge engineering by means of an innovative application framework called the virtualized collaborative sessions framework (VCSF). The VCSF helps meet challenging collaborative knowledge engineering requirements in online learning, such as increasing group me...

This paper presented a collaborative education model, which consists four parts: collaborative teaching, collaborative working, collaborative training and interaction. Supported by an e-learning platform, collaborative education was practiced in a data structure e-learning course. Data collected shows that most of students accept collaborative education. This paper goes one step attempting to d...

An emerging trend in classrooms is the use of collaborative learning environments that promote lively exchanges between learners in order to facilitate learning. This paper explored the possibility of using discourse features to predict student and group performance during collaborative learning interactions. We investigated the linguistic patterns of group chats, within an online collaborative...