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Research on Software Scaffolding and Community Support

This research focuses on the development of affordable virtual spaces that facilitate cooperative learning through computer-supported collaboration scripts. The study explores synchronous cooperative exercises and community support mechanisms within Collaborative Universal Remote Education (CURE). Key elements include the design and implementation of collaboration scripts, explicit referencing to enhance complex knowledge sharing, and integration of community features such as shared workspaces and communication channels. Results demonstrate positive impacts on student engagement and deeper insights through effective group dynamics and interaction.

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Research on Software Scaffolding and Community Support

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  1. Research on Software Scaffolding and Community Support Jörg M. Haake Joerg.Haake@FernUni-Hagen.de

  2. Overview Affordable virtual spaces for cooperative learning • Computer-supported collaboration scripts • Synchronous cooperative exercises • Community support and scaffolding in CURE

  3. Computer-supported collaboration scripts • Prescribe possible behaviour through • States, • Roles constraining actions, and • Transitions (changing state and role assignment) • Experimental study comparing different features • Collaboration script • Explicit referencing => positive impact of referencing for complex knowledge • Planned: • Comparing different UI designs for integrating awareness • Development environment for collaboration scripts

  4. Synchronous cooperative exercises (1) • Special tool for a specific form of exercise • Brainstorming • Organizing concepts into a semantic net

  5. Synchronous cooperative exercises (2) • Used in 2 courses; log data and group results analyzed • Voluntary participation • Groups (3-4 students) formed and mostly stayed together • Interaction changed over 3 sessions • social relationships formed • Less coordination • Groups did learn, discourse facilitated deeper insight

  6. Community support and scaffolding in CURE (1) • CURE (Collaborative Universal Remote Education) • Rooms: shared workspaces for groups • Rooms provide: • Pages: learning material & tools • Communication channels • Awareness • Adjacent roomsform learning environment • Templatescontrol presentation and structure of pages

  7. Community support and scaffolding in CURE (2) • Community Support • Managing collaborative spaces • Create/manipulate rooms • Access management • Communication: chat, discussions • Cooperation: shared pages • Coordination • Change notifications • Shared plans (pages) • Calendar, meeting scheduler • Group formation • Tailoring

  8. Community support and scaffolding in CURE (3) • Scaffolding • Organizing learning activities in rooms and pages • Explicit instructions, milestones • Organization • Predefined (teacher) • Self-organized • Tailoring • Planned: • Integration of collaboration scripts

  9. Research on Software Scaffolding and Community Support Jörg M. Haake Joerg.Haake@FernUni-Hagen.de

  10. Personal background • 1989-2001 at GMD-IPSI • Cooperative, open hypermedia systems • CSCW: authoring, meeting support, problem-solving • CSCL: collaboration scripts • Since 2001: FernUniversität in Hagen • Teaching: Distributed cooperative systems • Research: CSCL, support for cooperative learning among distributed students (and teachers)

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