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Small Group Processes on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning

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Today, information and communication technologies (ICTs) are often applied to assist learning processes. Peculiar objectives of ICT use in this topic are to facilitate collaboration and to increase learning through sharing and distributing knowledge. This study aimed to investigate the effects that a small group has on the individual and collaborative learning. A virtual environment was used to study the dynamics of social behaviors in collaborative and non-collaborative experimental conditions. Our results seem to support the hypothesis that social scripts are started, even when people are in non-interactive situations, and this is shown in virtual environments, too. Such outcomes, and the virtual interactions content analysis may suggest useful advices about collective reasoning and e-learning dynamics, which are very relevant topics in the study of web communities and educational communities.

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This work was partially funded by the European Commission, under the FP7 EINS Open Call Project FOCAL.

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  1. Department of Education and Psychology and CSDC, Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy

    Andrea Guazzini

  2. Department of Information Engineering and CSDC, Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy

    Cristina Cecchini & Elisa Guidi

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  1. University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Franco Bagnoli

  2. Center for Research and Technology, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Anna Satsiou

  3. National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece

    Ioannis Stavrakakis

  4. University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Paolo Nesi

  5. University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Giovanna Pacini

  6. University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  7. University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

    Thanassis Tiropanis

  8. University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

    Dominic DiFranzo

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Guazzini, A., Cecchini, C., Guidi, E. (2016). Small Group Processes on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. In: Bagnoli, F., et al. Internet Science. INSCI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9934. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45982-0_12

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