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Design and evaluation of a collaborative telelearning activity aimed at teacher training

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

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Published: 12 December 1999 Publication History

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This paper describes VisArt, a collaborative telelearning scenario aimed at teacher training. Students at three educational institutions in Norway collaborated at a distance through Team Wave Workplace to design a learning activity for some subject of their choice. At the University of Bergen, VisArt was part of a graduate course assignment where the students had to participate in VisArt and write a report reflecting on their participation from a theoretical perspective. Salomon's ideas on genuine interdependence and Gutwin et al.'s notions of awareness formed the foundation for the student's theoretical reflection. This paper describes the VisArt scenario, the evaluation studies being carried out within the DoCTA project, and summarises the student's own theoretical reflections.

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Baggetun RMørch A(2002)Resources for coordination in collaborative telelearningProceedings of the Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning: Foundations for a CSCL Community10.5555/1658616.1658772(658-659)Online publication date: 7-Jan-2002
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1658616.1658772

Design and evaluation of a collaborative telelearning activity aimed at teacher training
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms

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Baggetun RMørch A(2002)Resources for coordination in collaborative telelearningProceedings of the Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning: Foundations for a CSCL Community10.5555/1658616.1658772(658-659)Online publication date: 7-Jan-2002
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