Computer-Supported Structured Cooperative Learning

  • Authors:

  • Leen-Kiat Soh;Nobel Khandaker;Xuli Liu;Hong Jiang

  • Affiliations:

  • Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 256 Avery Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0115, {lksoh, knobel, xuliu, jiang }@cse.unl.edu;Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 256 Avery Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0115, {lksoh, knobel, xuliu, jiang }@cse.unl.edu;Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 256 Avery Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0115, {lksoh, knobel, xuliu, jiang }@cse.unl.edu;Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 256 Avery Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0115, {lksoh, knobel, xuliu, jiang }@cse.unl.edu

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Towards Sustainable and Scalable Educational Innovations Informed by the Learning Sciences: Sharing Good Practices of Research, Experimentation and Innovation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper we describe computer-supported structured cooperative learning, applied to the laboratories of an introductory CS1 course. We extended I-MINDS, a multiagent system that supports student-teacher and student-student real-time interactions, to support a cooperative learning paradigm called Jigsaw. Jigsaw considers of several phases of activities, including dividing students into different groups for focused exploration, reporting and reshaping, and integration and evaluation. I-MINDS supports the formation of teams and monitors the interaction. We have deployed I-MINDS in the hands-on programming laboratories in CS1, comparing student performance in the lab using only Jigsaw (where students carried out the Jigsaw process with face-to-face interactions) and in the lab using I-MINDS supported Jigsaw (where students could interact only through I-MINDS). We report the results of our study on the design of I-MINDS to support Jigsaw and the impact of I-MINDS in student performance.