CSCL Scripts - Effects of Social and Epistemic Scripts on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

ISBN-13: 9783836447690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 260 str.

Armin Weinberger

Opis

Most modern approaches to learning and instruction - and approach­es to computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) in particular - foresee collaboration on complex problems to facilitate individual con­struction of multi-perspective, application-related knowledge. Lear­ners are often overwhelmed by working on complex problems, how­ever, and rather aim towards satisficing minimal requirements of a learning task. Therefore, CSCL needs to be scaffolded for learners to actually interact and work on problems together in a way, which is effectively facilitating individual knowledge construction. CSCL scripts pose an approach to directly facilitate specific processes of collabo­rative knowledge construction. The question under investigation here is, what kind of processes should be supported by such CSCL scripts, social or epistemic processes or both?

O autorze

Weinberger, Armin Dr. Armin Weinberger is associate professor at the Chair of Instructional Technology, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, University of Twente, The Netherlands, formerly working at the LMU and the KMRC, Germany, investigating CSCL scripts, argumentative knowledge construction, cross-cultural education, and methodological issues in small group learning.