Book chapter
Polyphonic Support for Collaborative Learning
Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use, pp 132-139
2006
Abstract
This paper argues that one reason for the success of collaborative problem solving where individual attempts failed is the polyphonic character of work in small groups. Polyphony, a concept taken from music, may occur in chats for problem solving, transforming dialog into a “thinking device”: Different voices jointly construct a melody (story, or solution) and other voices adopt differential positions, identifying dissonances (unsound, rickety stories or solutions). This polyphonic interplay may eventually make clear the correct (“sound”) construction. The paper illustrates the polyphonic character of collaborative problem solving using chats. It also proposes prototyped software tools for facilitating polyphony in chats.
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- Title
- Polyphonic Support for Collaborative Learning
- Creators
- Stefan Trausan-Matu - Polytechnic University of BucharestGerry Stahl - Drexel UniversityJohann Sarmiento - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use, pp 132-139
- Series
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Berlin, Heidelberg
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000243107200011
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-33750046294
- Other Identifier
- 991019170122704721
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- International collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Computer Science, Theory & Methods
- Telecommunications