The role of the backchannel in collaborative learning environments

  • Authors:
  • Sarita Yardi

  • Affiliations:
  • UC Berkeley School of Information, Berkeley, CA

  • Venue:
  • ICLS '06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Learning sciences
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Students at UC Berkeley's School of Information have participated in a persistent, online "backchannel" chatroom during class since the Fall of 2004. This paper describes the affordances offered by this technology for enhanced peer-to-peer and teacher-student interactions in a collaborative learning environment.