Collaborative learning at low cost: CoWeb use in English composition

  • Authors:
  • Jochen Rick;Mark Guzdial;Karen Carroll Lissa Holloway-Attaway;Brandy Walker

  • Affiliations:
  • Culture Georgia Institute of Technology;Culture Georgia Institute of Technology;Georgia Institute of Technology;Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • CSCL '02 Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning: Foundations for a CSCL Community
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

CoWeb is a collaborative learning environment used in many classes at Georgia Institute of Technology; it is an extremely simple domain-independent collaboration tool. Our aim is to show that such a simple system can sustain useful peer-to-peer and instructor-to-student interaction that fosters better performance and learning, without incurring a high cost. In this paper, we present evidence of the success of this tool in supporting learning at low cost in one environment---freshman-level English classes.