The Role of Technology in CSCL COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING VOLUME 9 Series Editor: Pierre Dillenbourg, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland Editorial Board: Michael Baker, CNRS & Université Lumière Lyon, France Carl Bereiter, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado, U.S.A. H. Ulrich Hoppe, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Timothy Koschmann, Southern Illinois University, U.S.A. Naomi Miyake, Chukyo University, Japan Claire O’Malley, University of Nottingham, U.K. Roy Pea, SRI International, U.S.A. Clotilde Pontecorovo, University ‘La Sapienza’, Italy Jeremy Roschelle, SRI International, U.S.A. Daniel Suthers, University of Hawaii, U.S.A. The Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Book Series is for people working in the CSCL field. The scope of the series extends to ‘collaborative learning’ in its broadest sense; the term is used for situations ranging from two individuals performing a task together, during a short period of time, to groups of 200 students following the same course and interacting via electronic mail. This variety also concerns the computational tools used in learning: elaborated graphical whiteboards support peer interaction, while more rudimentary text-based discussion forums are used for large group interaction. The series will integrate issues related to CSCL such as collaborative problem solving, collaborative learning without computers, negotiation patterns outside collaborative tasks, and many other relevant topics. It will also cover computational issues such as models, algorithms or architectures which support innovative functions relevant to CSCL systems. The edited volumes and monographs to be published in this series offer authors who have carried out interesting research work the opportunity to integrate various pieces of their recent work into a larger framework. The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume. H. Ulrich Hoppe H. Ogata A. Soller (Editors) The Role of Technology in CSCL Studies in Technology Enhanced Collaborative Learning H. Ulrich Hoppe University of Duisburg-Essen Duisburg 47057 Germany
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