You can find an article on technology-supported collaborative learning through the link:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/d553240441v47335/fulltext.pdf
This paper provides trends of recent interest in technology-supported collaborative learning in higher education by reviews of research conducted in the last 20 years on the application of technology in support of collaborative learning in higher education. The review focuses primarily on studies that use Internet-based technologies and social interaction analysis. The review provides six sets of observations/recommendations regarding methodology, empirical evidence, and research gaps and issues that may help focus future research in this emerging field of study.
Resta, P., & Laferriere, T. (2007). Technology in support for collaborative learning. Educational psychology review, 19(1), 65-83.
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BeantwoordenVerwijderenTechnology in Support of Collaborative Learning
Paul Resta & Thérèse Laferrière
Published online: 31 January 2007
# Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2007
Hello Mirjam,
In the article common elements of collaborative and cooperative learning are mentioned:
•Learning is active
•The teacher is usually more a facilitator than a “sage on the stage”
•Teaching and learning are shared experiences
•Students participate in small-group activities
•Students take responsibility for learning
•Students reflect on their own assumptions and thought processes
•Social and team skills are developed through the give-and-take of consensus- building
Collaborative and cooperative learning both involve the instructional use of small groups in which students work together to maximize their own and each other’s learning.
The article says that the primary aim of CSCL is to provide an environment that supports
collaboration between students to enhance their learning processes, facilitate collective learning, or group cognition. But CSCL environments, can be a theoretical approach, it still is about specific computer applications. In your post on Collaborative learning you state that it is in general an instruction technique where students are placed in small groups or pairs while working on a specific task and are encouraged to communicate with their partner by sharing ideas and working towards a common goal. The ideas you give are chat boxes, web-cams, sharing of files and pictures, language translators and a forum.
I wonder, what’s your view on collaborative learning when it has to be applied in a classroom. Because then the student to learn specific tasks and skills and I think those tasks and skills need to learned in the proper way. The offered collaborative learning examples don't look like they let the student learn in a correct way. They look more like learning randomly, the student needs a lot of experience in selecting its information. Overviewing the whole set of posts on your blog, Collaborative learning appears more like the internet. Is that true?