Collaboration in Online Activity of Mathematics Teacher Trainning

Abstract

This paper discusses aspects of collaboration present in the activity of a group of students, from mathematics teachers undergraduation course, to develop a class about function in an online collaborative environment. This group was selected to be addressed here, among other three groups, by the prominent role collaborative aspects took in their activity. Therefore, this paper the factors that were crucial on this group collaboration. The theoretical framework comprised by Computer Supported Collaborative Learning CSCL, highlighting analysis of the collaborative model, the script and its role in the session. From the methodology, we bring a description of the students, the environment built for the study and data collection. The results reveal that students´ autonomy in external sources searching was determinant for collaboration.