The virtual classroom: learning without limits via computer networks
The virtual classroom: learning without limits via computer networks
Student communities for the advancement of knowledge
Communications of the ACM
Student characteristics and computer-mediated communication
Computers & Education
Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy
Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy
Online Education: Perspectives on a New Environment
Online Education: Perspectives on a New Environment
Education and Information Technologies
Cognitive style, hypermedia navigation and learning
Computers & Education
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Computers in Human Behavior
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Proceedings of the 49th Annual Southeast Regional Conference
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In this paper we compared the efficacy of face-to-face and computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) in increasing academic knowledge and professional competences. We also explored how students' personality characteristics and learning strategies and teachers' characteristics were associated with better learning outcomes in online or face-to-face contexts. One hundred and seventy students participated in 10 community psychology seminars, five online and five face-to-face. Academic and professional learning increased for participants in both settings. Tutors' characteristics did not influence students' learning. Students who performed better in online and in face-to-face contexts differed in some psychological variables and in their learning strategies. Overall results show that asynchronous collaborative learning online can increase professional competences normally learnt only in small face-to-face educational settings, and that CSCL can be used to provide innovative educational opportunities that fit particular needs of students with low anxiety, high problem solving efficacy, who have time management problems in their learning strategies.