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Research on Software Scaffolding and Community Support. Jörg M. Haake Joerg.Haake@FernUni-Hagen.de. Overview. Affordable virtual spaces for cooperative learning Computer-supported collaboration scripts Synchronous cooperative exercises Community support and scaffolding in CURE.
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Research on Software Scaffolding and Community Support Jörg M. Haake Joerg.Haake@FernUni-Hagen.de
Overview Affordable virtual spaces for cooperative learning • Computer-supported collaboration scripts • Synchronous cooperative exercises • Community support and scaffolding in CURE
Computer-supported collaboration scripts • Prescribe possible behaviour through • States, • Roles constraining actions, and • Transitions (changing state and role assignment) • Experimental study comparing different features • Collaboration script • Explicit referencing => positive impact of referencing for complex knowledge • Planned: • Comparing different UI designs for integrating awareness • Development environment for collaboration scripts
Synchronous cooperative exercises (1) • Special tool for a specific form of exercise • Brainstorming • Organizing concepts into a semantic net
Synchronous cooperative exercises (2) • Used in 2 courses; log data and group results analyzed • Voluntary participation • Groups (3-4 students) formed and mostly stayed together • Interaction changed over 3 sessions • social relationships formed • Less coordination • Groups did learn, discourse facilitated deeper insight
Community support and scaffolding in CURE (1) • CURE (Collaborative Universal Remote Education) • Rooms: shared workspaces for groups • Rooms provide: • Pages: learning material & tools • Communication channels • Awareness • Adjacent roomsform learning environment • Templatescontrol presentation and structure of pages
Community support and scaffolding in CURE (2) • Community Support • Managing collaborative spaces • Create/manipulate rooms • Access management • Communication: chat, discussions • Cooperation: shared pages • Coordination • Change notifications • Shared plans (pages) • Calendar, meeting scheduler • Group formation • Tailoring
Community support and scaffolding in CURE (3) • Scaffolding • Organizing learning activities in rooms and pages • Explicit instructions, milestones • Organization • Predefined (teacher) • Self-organized • Tailoring • Planned: • Integration of collaboration scripts
Research on Software Scaffolding and Community Support Jörg M. Haake Joerg.Haake@FernUni-Hagen.de
Personal background • 1989-2001 at GMD-IPSI • Cooperative, open hypermedia systems • CSCW: authoring, meeting support, problem-solving • CSCL: collaboration scripts • Since 2001: FernUniversität in Hagen • Teaching: Distributed cooperative systems • Research: CSCL, support for cooperative learning among distributed students (and teachers)