Anchoring discussions in lecture: an approach to collaboratively extending classroom digital media

  • Authors:
  • Gregory Abowd;Maria da Graça Pimentel;Bolot Kerimbaev;Yoshihide Ishiguro;Mark Guzdial

  • Affiliations:
  • Georgia Institute of Technology;Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil;Georgia Institute of Technology;Human Media Research Laboratories, NEC Corp., Japan;Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • CSCL '99 Proceedings of the 1999 conference on Computer support for collaborative learning
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Collaborative environments typically provide a medium for realizing or capturing discussion. While valuable, the discussion is often decontextualized from the situation in which it makes sense. Anchored collaboration environments provide a mechanism for connecting collaboration to digital media content, such as Web-based syllabi and assignment descriptions. The most significant learning context in most classes is still the face-to-face whole class lecture or discussion. The Classroom 2000 project at Georgia Tech is capturing classroom experiences in multiple media: audio, video, presenter's slides, presenter's whiteboard markings, and students' notes. By connecting the Classroom 2000 captured lectures to a persistent collaboration space, we provide (a) a mechanism for asynchronous collaboration that is anchored in class contexts and (b) a means for treating class activity as persistent learning medium for later comment and collaborative extension. This paper describes a pilot study to create a collaborative discussion space anchored in captured classroom lectures.