Awareness and coordination in shared workspaces
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Collaborative learning as interplay between simulation model builder and player
CSCL '95 The first international conference on Computer support for collaborative learning
The design and evolution of turbo turtle, a collaborative microworld for exploring Newtonian physics
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Supporting large-scale distributed simulation using HLA
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
Collaborative information environments to support knowledge construction by communities
AI & Society - Special issue on computer-supported cooperative
Collaborative Discovery Learning of Model Design
ITS '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Architectures for Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
ICALT '01 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
The design of history mechanisms and their use in collaborative educational simulations
CSCL '99 Proceedings of the 1999 conference on Computer support for collaborative learning
An analog oscilloscope simulator with Internet interactioncapability for on-line teaching
IEEE Transactions on Education
IEEE Transactions on Education
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The integration of collaborative technologies with simulation provides new opportunities to assist the learners in a more interactive, active, motivating, and productive way and at the same time facilitates confronting more complex problems. This integration has been put into practice in a collaborative environment for the teaching and learning of house automation. Teachers use this environment to configure collaborative learning activities based on problem solving. Then, students, working at the same time but from different locations, collaborate in building models as solutions to the problems and in evaluating the models through the use of simulation. This article describes this environment and its collaborative simulation tool, called COSTHA. It focuses on the object-oriented modeling of the domain, on the formalization of the problems to solve, on the features of COSTHA as a collaborative simulator, and on its architecture and implementation.