Conceptual and computational issues in the formalization of collaboration scripts

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Harrer;Lars Kobbe;Nils Malzahn

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Duisburg-Essen;Knowledge Media Research Center;University of Duisburg-Essen

  • Venue:
  • CSCL'07 Proceedings of the 8th iternational conference on Computer supported collaborative learning
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Collaboration scripts aim at facilitating social and cognitive processes of collaborative learning by shaping the way learners interact with each other. Computer-supported collaboration scripts generally suffer from the problem of being restrained to a specific learning platform and learning context. Researchers are therefore aiming for a formalization of collaboration scripts on both a conceptual and a computational level. A recently developed framework allows to describe collaboration scripts using a small number of components (participants, activities, roles, resources and groups) and mechanisms (task distribution, group formation and sequencing). Based on these, a formal, graphical modelling tool has been developed and tested with several example scripts.