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The development of new infrastructures for information and communication is intertwined with people’s everyday, professional and public lives as our societies gradually become more digitized. These developments also change the conditions for human learning and communication. How this plays out is the topic of this contribution. The collaborative dimension is important since many societal and institutional problems require collaborative and interdisciplinary problem solving. Collaboration involves social, emotional, and cognitive mechanisms on which learning is dependent. The computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) field is part of the overall development of technology, culture, and society. More specifically, CSCL provides new learning designs that support collaboration and learning in multiple domains and rigorous analyses of emerging social practices supported by digital technology. How knowledge is inscribed and represented in tools changes with new developments in computer science. In this sense, researchers working within the CSCL field merge social, cultural, psychological, and technological developments into a phenomenon we need to investigate to understand how individuals, groups, institutions, and society are transformed. Computer-supported collaborative learning builds on different scientific disciplines and fields, such as the learning sciences, communication studies, computer science (e.g., human computer interaction, computational linguistics) and some branches of the social sciences. Methodologies from a number of fields are part of the repertoire of CSCL researchers. We emphasize that the defining features of CSCL are the interdisciplinary interdependencies between theories of learning, collaboration and computer science.
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In their chapter in the second edition of the Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences, Nathan and Sawyer (2014) chose to use the term elemental when we use systemic, and when they use systemic we use dialogic. In this chapter, we use the concepts that we introduced in 2006.
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Ludvigsen, S., Arnseth, H.C. (2017). Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. In: Duval, E., Sharples, M., Sutherland, R. (eds) Technology Enhanced Learning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02600-8_5
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