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International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

June 2011 Volume 6, Number 2

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Number of articles: 7

  1. Bridging Research and Practice: Implementing and Sustaining Knowledge Building in Hong Kong Classrooms

    Carol K. K. Chan

    Despite major theoretical progress in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL), relatively less attention has been paid to the problem of how research advances may impact schools and... More

    pp. 147-186

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  2. Wiki-Supported Collaborative Learning in Primary Education: How a Dialogic Space Is Created for Thinking Together

    Manoli Pifarre & Judith Kleine Staarman

    This paper explores how wikis may be used to support primary education students' collaborative interaction and how such an interaction process can be characterised. The overall aim of this study is... More

    pp. 187-205

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  3. An Information Processing Perspective on Divergence and Convergence in Collaborative Learning

    Robert L. Jorczak

    This paper presents a model of collaborative learning that takes an information processing perspective of learning by social interaction. The collaborative information processing model provides a... More

    pp. 207-221

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  4. Comparing the Effects of Representational Tools in Collaborative and Individual Inquiry Learning

    Bas Kolloffel, Tessa H. S. Eysink & Ton de Jong

    Constructing a representation in which students express their domain understanding can help them improve their knowledge. Many different representational formats can be used to express one's domain... More

    pp. 223-251

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  5. A Multimodal Approach to Coding Discourse: Collaboration, Distributed Cognition, and Geometric Reasoning

    Michael A. Evans, Eliot Feenstra, Emily Ryon & David McNeill

    Our research aims to identify children's communicative strategies when faced with the task of solving a geometric puzzle in CSCL contexts. We investigated how to identify and trace "distributed... More

    pp. 253-278

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  6. Designing Automated Adaptive Support to Improve Student Helping Behaviors in a Peer Tutoring Activity

    Erin Walker, Nikol Rummel & Kenneth R. Koedinger

    Adaptive collaborative learning support systems analyze student collaboration as it occurs and provide targeted assistance to the collaborators. Too little is known about how to design adaptive... More

    pp. 279-306

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  7. CSCL for Intellectually Disabled Pupils: Stimulating Interaction by Using a Floor Control Mechanism

    Ulrike Cress, Katrin Wodzicki, Martina Bientzle & Andreas Lingnau

    Computer-supported collaborative learning has an unexploited potential of becoming an effective learning method for pupils with intellectual disabilities. This paper aims at showing how some... More

    pp. 307-321

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