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Proposal of a Collaborative Learning Standardization
Toshio Okamoto, Mizue Kayama and Alexandra Cristea
University of Electro- Communications Graduate School of Information Systems
{okamoto, kayama, alex}ai.is.uec.ac.jp
Abstract
This paper reports on considerations and steps towards standardization [2] of the collaborative learning environment. This standardization will extend and widen the field of applications possible within the collaborative learning paradigm, and will make possible the usage of the fruits of years of research and individual implementations of the concept of collaborative learning, from our own laboratory and from others.
1. Collaborative Learning Support
Distributed [4,5] collaborative learning [1,3,6,7,8] support is a research domain that tries to find out ways to support the collaboration of multiple learners on the network (CSCL - Computer Supported Collaborative
Learning), in problem solving or other cooperative curriculum activities, according to the used LT (Learning
Technology). Compared to CSCW (Computer Supported
Cooperative Work), CSCL has as a goal not so much the working efficiency, but the learning achievement efficiency, and the promotion of deep understanding of the subject field by the learner, combined with the recognition or meta-recognition of the achievement of this ability by other persons. The regular CSCL groupware implementation provides usually two types of activity space: a private and a collaborative working space, where the learners can exchange information in a synchronous or asynchronous manner.
2. Primitive Activities and Resources
Primitive activities in collaborative learning are:
Dialogue (with Interaction), Data/Idea sharing, Observing/ suggesting, Turn-taking, Coordinating/ Control, Planning/
Executing, Initiative/ Supervising. The resources required in collaborative learning are: Dialogue Channel, Shared
Workplace (shared object space), Technologically mediated
Toshio Okamoto, Mizue Kayama and Alexandra Cristea
University of Electro- Communications Graduate School of Information Systems
{okamoto, kayama, alex}ai.is.uec.ac.jp
Abstract
This paper reports on considerations and steps towards standardization [2] of the collaborative learning environment. This standardization will extend and widen the field of applications possible within the collaborative learning paradigm, and will make possible the usage of the fruits of years of research and individual implementations of the concept of collaborative learning, from our own laboratory and from others.
1. Collaborative Learning Support
Distributed [4,5] collaborative learning [1,3,6,7,8] support is a research domain that tries to find out ways to support the collaboration of multiple learners on the network (CSCL - Computer Supported Collaborative
Learning), in problem solving or other cooperative curriculum activities, according to the used LT (Learning
Technology). Compared to CSCW (Computer Supported
Cooperative Work), CSCL has as a goal not so much the working efficiency, but the learning achievement efficiency, and the promotion of deep understanding of the subject field by the learner, combined with the recognition or meta-recognition of the achievement of this ability by other persons. The regular CSCL groupware implementation provides usually two types of activity space: a private and a collaborative working space, where the learners can exchange information in a synchronous or asynchronous manner.
2. Primitive Activities and Resources
Primitive activities in collaborative learning are:
Dialogue (with Interaction), Data/Idea sharing, Observing/ suggesting, Turn-taking, Coordinating/ Control, Planning/
Executing, Initiative/ Supervising. The resources required in collaborative learning are: Dialogue Channel, Shared
Workplace (shared object space), Technologically mediated