Flexible Scripting to Facilitate Knowledge Construction in Computer-supported Collaborative Learning
Flexible Scripting to Facilitate Knowledge Construction in Computer-supported Collaborative Learning

Author: Xinghua Wang

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-04-25

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 9811040206

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This book discusses the significance of flexible scripting to structure CSCL against the framework of “Script theory of guidance” and reports on findings from two empirical studies on the effects of flexible scripting on collaboration in CSCL scenarios. In the first empirical study flexibility was accomplished through adaptivity, and through adaptability in the second. The results of these studies show that adaptive and adaptable scripts enhanced the quality of collaborative knowledge construction processes as well as learners’ collaboration skills, compared to inflexible scripts. The findings presented in this book will contribute to theory building of the scripting approach in CSCL. The authors propose two innovative ways of achieving flexible scripting and address the mechanisms by which adaptive versus adaptable script influences collaborative knowledge construction. Moreover, the adaptive and adaptable scripting approaches provide hands-on examples for practitioners and contribute to their understanding of teaching design in CSCL settings.

E-Collaborative Knowledge Construction: Learning from Computer-Supported and Virtual Environments
E-Collaborative Knowledge Construction: Learning from Computer-Supported and Virtual Environments

Author: Ertl, Bernhard

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2010-01-31

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1615207309

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"This book presents best practice environments to implement e-collaborative knowledge construction, providing psychological and technical background information about issues present in such scenarios and presents methods to improve online learning environments"--Provided by publisher.

Barriers and Biases in Computer-Mediated Knowledge Communication
Barriers and Biases in Computer-Mediated Knowledge Communication

Author: Rainer Bromme

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-03-30

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0387243194

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What are the barriers in computer-mediated communication for cooperative learning and work? Based on empirical research, the chapters of this book offer different perspectives on the nature and causes of such barriers for students and researchers in the field.

STEM Education
STEM Education

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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-05-29

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1837692556

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This book examines Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education in different countries with a focus on recent developments and emerging trends. STEM education has become a gateway for socio-economic and technological development of nation-states. In light of this, many countries have prioritized STEM education and made it an integral part of their education at all levels. Moreover, many approaches have been used to develop STEM education and teach students to compete with the fast-developing world. However, despite its infinite benefits, it is also important to note that there is inequality in the access and delivery of STEM education within and across countries, which requires new approaches to improve STEM education and its teaching and learning. Therefore, this book consists of chapters on the development, teaching, and access of STEM education from different education levels, countries, and perspectives. The chapters discuss the concept of STEM education in general or on a particular level of education (. g., PreK–12 education, vocational education, and higher education), or subjects such as mathematics, computer science, and architecture. Moreover, the book includes chapters based on the nexus of STEM education and other subjects, including arts and culture, to teaching STEM education. The book contributes to understanding and improving STEM education and instruction globally.

Scaling up Learning for Sustained Impact
Scaling up Learning for Sustained Impact

Author: Davinia Hernández-Leo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 669

ISBN-13: 3642408141

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2013, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in September 2013. The 31 full papers, 18 short papers, 14 demonstrations and 29 posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 194 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections. The topics addressed include open educational resources (OER), massive open online courses (MOOC), schools of the future, orchestration of learning activities, learning networks, teacher networks, bring your own device (BYOD), social media, learning analytics, personalization, mobile learning, computer-supported collaborative learning, game-based and simulation-based learning, and learning design.

Scripting Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
Scripting Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

Author: Frank Fischer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-04-08

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 038736949X

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Theoretically, the term "script" appears to be rather ill-defined. This book clarifies the use of the term "script" in education. It approaches the term from at least three perspectives: cognitive psychology perspective, computer science perspective, and an educational perspective. The book provides learners with scripts that support them both in communication/coordination and in higher-order learning.

Technology-Enhanced Learning
Technology-Enhanced Learning

Author: Nicolas Balacheff

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-03-24

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1402098278

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Technology-enhanced learning is a timely topic, the importance of which is recognized by educational researchers, practitioners, software designers, and policy makers. This volume presents and discusses current trends and issues in technology-enhanced learning from a European research and development perspective. This multifaceted and multidisciplinary topic is considered from four different viewpoints, each of which constitutes a separate section in the book. The sections include general as well as domain-specific principles of learning that have been found to play a significant role in technology-enhanced environments, ways to shape the environment to optimize learners’ interactions and learning, and specific technologies used by the environment to empower learners. An additional section discusses the work presented in the preceding sections from a computer science perspective and an implementation perspective. This book comes out of the work in Kaleidoscope: a European Network of Excellence in which over 1,000 people from more than 90 institutes across Europe participate. Kaleidoscope brings together researchers from diverse disciplines and cultures, through their collaboration and sharing of scientific outcomes, they are helping move the field of technology-enhanced learning forward.

Computer Supported Collaborative Learning 2005
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning 2005

Author: Timothy Koschmann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 803

ISBN-13: 1351226894

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The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) conference has become an internationally-recognized forum for the exchange of research findings related to learning in the context of collaborative activity and the exploration of how such learning might be augmented through technology. This text is the proceedings from CSCL 2005 held in Taipei, Taiwan. This conference marked the 10th anniversary of the first CSCL Conference held at Indiana University in 1995. Subsequent meetings have been held at the University of Toronto, Stanford University, University of Maastricht (Netherlands), University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Bergen (Norway).Just as the first CSCL conference was instrumental in shaping the trajectory of the field in its first decade, the conference in Taipei will play an important role in consolidating an increasingly international and interdisciplinary community and defining the direction of the field for the next 10 years. This volume, and the papers from which it is comprised, will be an important resource for those active in this area of research and for others interested in fostering learning in settings of collaboration.

Global Issues in Higher Education
Global Issues in Higher Education

Author: Pamela B. Richards

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9781600218026

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In most developed countries a high proportion of the population (up to 50 percent) now enter higher education at some time in their lives. Higher education is therefore very important to national economies, both as a significant industry in its own right, and as a source of trained and educated personnel for the rest of the economy. It follows that there are enormous stakes involved for a particular country even though the payoff of serious reforms may take decades and thus be counterproductive to the political forces responsible for designing and implementing such reforms since their horizons tend to be very short. This new book tackles important issues in this dynamic field.

Arguing to Learn
Arguing to Learn

Author: Jerry Andriessen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 9401707812

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This book focuses on how new pedagogical scenarios, task environments and communication tools within Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments can favour collaborative and productive confrontations of ideas, evidence, arguments and explanations, or arguing to learn. The first to assemble the work of internationally renowned scholars, this book will be of interest to researchers in education, psychology, computer science, communication and linguistic studies