Collaborative Learning Through Computer Conferencing

1. Front Matter

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2. Learning Together Apart

   1. Learning Together Apart

      • Anthony Kaye

      Pages 1-24

3. Computer Conferencing in Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-27

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   2. Telematic Support for In-Service Teacher Training

      • Cristina Simón

      Pages 29-37

   3. Waiting for Electropolis

      • Morten Søby

      Pages 39-49

   4. Computer Mediated Communication for Management Learning

      • David McConnell

      Pages 51-68

   5. Collaboration in International Online Teams

      • Elaine McCreary, Madge Brochet

      Pages 69-85

   6. Collaborative Learning in a Large Scale Computer Conferencing System

      • Jesus Rueda

      Pages 87-101

4. Ways of Understanding Online Collaboration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-104

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   2. Evaluation Methodologies for Computer Conferencing Applications

      • Robin Mason

      Pages 105-116

   3. Computer Conferencing and Content Analysis

      • France Henri

      Pages 117-136

   4. A Case Study Approach to Evaluation of Computer Conferencing

      • Michael Waggoner

      Pages 137-146

   5. Talking, Teaching, and Learning in Network Groups: Lessons from Research

      • Sara Kiesler

      Pages 147-165

   6. Understanding Collaborative Learning in Networked Organizations

      • John Gundry

      Pages 167-178

5. Issues in Software Design

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-180

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   2. The Challenge of Conferencing System Development

      • Oliver Vallée

      Pages 181-187

   3. Metaphors and the Design of the Human Interface

      • Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen

      Pages 189-199

   4. Designing Human Interfaces for Collaborative Learning

      • Gary Alexander

      Pages 201-210

   5. Toward a Hypermedium for Collaborative Learning?

      • Alain Derycke

      Pages 211-223

   6. Computer Conferencing Functions and Standards

      • Jacob Palme

      Pages 225-245

The idea for the Workshop on which this book is based arose from discussions which we had when we both attended an earlier - and more broadly based - NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, directed by Claire O'Malley in Maratea, Italy, in 1989. We both felt that it would be interesting to organise a second Workshop in this area, but specifically concerned with the use of computers and networking (telematics) as communication tools for collaborative learning outside the formal school setting. We were particularly interested in examining the ways in which computer conferencing can be used for collaboration and group learning in the contexts of distance education, adult learning, professional training, and organisational networking. And we wanted to ensure that we included, in the scope of the Workshop, situations in which learning is a primary, explicit goal (e.g. an online training programme) as well as situations where learning occurs as a secondary, even incidental, outcome of a collaborative activity whose explicit purpose might be different (e.g. the activities of networked product teams or task groups). Another goal was to try to bring together for a few days people with three different perspectives on the use of computer conferencing: users, researchers, and software designers. We hoped that, if we could assemble a group of people from these three different constituencies, we might, collectively, be able to make a small contribution to real progress in the field.

• Collaborative learning
• Networking
• Organizational communications
• Rechnernetze
• Standards
• computer network
• hardware
• learning
• memory
• networks
• online
• organization
• software
• software architecture
• system development

• Institute of Educational Technology, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

  Anthony R. Kaye

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