Analyzing Interactions in CSCL

Analyzing Interactions in CSCL: Methodology, Approaches, and Issues deepens the understanding of ways to document and analyze interactions in CSCL and informs the design of the next generation of CSCL tools. It provides researchers with several alternative methodologies, theoretical underpinnings of the methods used, data indicating how the method worked, guidance for using the methods, implications for understanding collaborative processes and their effect on learning outcomes and implications for design.

CSCL research tends to span across several disciplines such as education, psychology, computer science and artificial intelligence. As a result, the methods for data collection and analysis are interdisciplinary, from fields such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, computer science, and artificial intelligence. This book brings perspectives together, and provides researchers with an array of methodologies to document and analyze collaborative interactions.

• Analyzing Collaborative Interactions
• Assessing Argumentation in CSCL
• Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
• Contextual Perspective in Analyzing Collaborative Activity
• Data Mining Methods
• Distributed Mediated Interaction
• Emergence of Convergence in Group Discussions
• Group Cognition
• Hierarchical Linear Modeling
• K-12
• Knowledge Building
• Multi-Level Analysis in CSCL
• Representational Tools
• Text-Based Communication in CSCL
• Theory Building and Pedagogical Support
• Transactivity in Online Discussions
• Understanding Group Processes

• Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

  Sadhana Puntambekar

• Dept. Educational Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

  Gijsbert Erkens

• Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

  Cindy Hmelo-Silver

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