A view of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning research today

Abstract

The field of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) explores the design and use of collaboration technologies to support learning systems, such as school classrooms or small groups of people building knowledge together [4]. I hope that CSCL environments can be designed that make possible and encourage groups to think and learn collaboratively [1]. In my research, my colleagues and I look at logs of student groups chatting and drawing about mathematics in order to see how they build on each other's ideas to achieve more than they would individually [2].