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20 - Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

from Part IV - Learning Together

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

By
Gerry Stahl ,
Timothy Koschmann  and
Daniel Suthers
Edited by
R. Keith Sawyer
R. Keith Sawyer
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Summary

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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computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL)collaborative learningcooperative learningthe Internetonline learningdiscoursegroup cognition
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences , pp. 406 - 427
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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