Designing TEL-Tools for Thinking Skills: Learning to Learn Together in a CSCL Environment

Developing TEL systems that support specifically the acquisition of higher order skills, such as collaboration competencies, is challenging because of the inherent complexity of the skills and how to map this into proper system design. In this article we will present our experiences and approach how to use incremental design processes to support the specific 21st century skill Learning to Learn Together (L2L2). We will give a detailed description of one design iteration for collaborative editing and discuss the design method and evaluation aspects.