Book chapter
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences, pp 406-427
30 Apr 2022
Abstract
In its broadest definition, computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is any learning that involves two or more learners as well as one or more computers. CSCL research studies how collaboration contributes to learning and how computer technology can facilitate collaborative learning. This chapter discusses CSCL in terms of four conceptions: (1) collaborative knowledge building; (2) dialogic interaction; (3) intersubjective meaning making; (4) group cognition. CSCL research demonstrates that collaboration among students – when well-designed to scaffold student interactions – is more effective than teachers delivering information to students through a recorded lecture or a synchronous video meeting. This chapter reviews major themes in CSCL, including: empirical studies of cooperative learning in groups; theoretical explanations of learning as an emergent, collective phenomenon; conceptions of knowledge as interactions between learners, rather than as mental representations in student’s heads; and the use of interaction analysis to study moment-to-moment collaborations.
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- Title
- Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
- Creators
- Gerry Stahl - Drexel UniversityTimothy Koschmann - SIU MedicineDaniel Suthers - University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
- Publication Details
- The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences, pp 406-427
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 22
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- School of Computer and Information Sciences; [Retired Faculty]
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-105028056295
- Other Identifier
- 991022237373604721