Facilitating cooperative learning in hypermedia systems

  • Authors:
  • Jörg M. Haake;Hans-Rüdiger Pfister;Martin Wessner

  • Affiliations:
  • GMD --- German National Research Center for Information Technology, Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI);GMD --- German National Research Center for Information Technology, Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI);GMD --- German National Research Center for Information Technology, Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI)

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGWEB Newsletter
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Distributed organizations as well as virtual universities need support for cooperative learning processes. This led to the new major research area computer-supported cooperative (or collaborative) learning. We propose an approach to hypermedia-based collaborative learning environments which supports a wide range of synchronous and asynchronous types of cooperative learning as well as smooth transitions between these learning modes. A framework for building such environments consisting of virtual learning rooms, learning nets, and learning protocol is presented. These concepts are implemented in the CROCODILE prototype developed at GMDIPSI.