The role of technology in CSCL : studies in technology
enhanced collaborative learning / H. Ulrich Hoppe, H. Ogata, A. Soller,
editors.
Springer-Verlag, New York [etc.] : 2007.
X, 194 p. : il.
ISBN 9780387711355
Materias:
Biblioteca Sbc Investigación 371.3 ROL
This book
relates "new" information and communication technologies (ICT) to
their specific teaching and learning functions, in particular how ICT is
appropriated for and/or by educational or learning communities. We categorize
consumer-oriented educational multimedia as established technologies, not of
primary importance for innovative approaches to collaborative learning.
Internet connections in schools and academic institutions are no longer new,
though the learning culture originating from this technology may still lack a
sufficiently rich definition. The technological "hot spots" of
interest in this book are in turn: groupware or multi-user technologies such as
group archives or synchronous co-construction environments, embedded interactive
technologies in the spirit of ubiquitous computing, and modeling tools based on
rich representations.Important features of these new technologies are: the move
from individually oriented software tools to multi-user tools providing group
awareness as well as facilities for the co-construction of knowledge; a
definition of software use beyond a single piece of software towards multiple
applications or tools which are not only technically interoperable but also
task and role compliant in a social situation (social interoperability); high
interactivity and creative potential with high productive activity and
initiative on the part of the user (as opposed to the receptive scheme of usage
of many educational multimedia applications); new kinds of peripherals in the
spirit "of ubiquitous computing and augmented reality", which allow
for redefining the borderline between physical action on the one hand and
virtual or symbolic on the other.
