WebGuide: Guiding Collaborative Learning on the Web with Perspectives
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https://doi.org/10.5334/2001-1Keywords:
perspectives, collaborative learning, computer support, knowledge building, artifact,Abstract
Abstract: We are developing a Web-based tool called WebGuide to mediate and structure collaborative learning. This software uses an innovative mechanism to define a flexible system of perspectives on a shared knowledge construction space. WebGuide provides an electronic and persistent workspace for individuals and teams to develop and share distinctive points of view on a topic. We are designing the software and associated usage practices by trying it out in a middle school classroom and an advanced graduate seminar. Our experience in these use situations has raised a range of questions concerning theoretical and practical issues, which are driving our research. This paper is a reflection on what we are learning collaboratively about how software artifacts can mediate learning and shared cognition.
Editors: Gary Boyd (Concordia U., CA)
Reviewers: Helen Chappel-Hayios (U. Glasgow, UK), Hans van der Meij (U. Twente, NL)
Notes: Since publishing this paper, the author has relocated to the German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD-FIT) in Sankt Augustin, Germany. He can be contacted at Gerry.Stahl@GMD.de
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