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Information ecology of collaborations in educational settings: influence of tool

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CSCL '97: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Computer support for collaborative learning

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Published: 10 December 1997 Publication History

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The information ecology perspective [2] helps to understand information spaces in terms of the creation, searching, and use (consumption) of information. An information ecology perspective of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments describes the flow of information into the ecology (who writes notes? how many and when?) and the use of that information (who reads? how many and when?). From that perspective, use of two CSCL tools is compared to note similarities (e.g., notes written per student) and dissimilarities (e.g., thread length).

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CSCL '97: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Computer support for collaborative learning

December 1997

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Graduate School of Education, University of California, at Berkeley
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Naomi Miyake
School of Computer and Cognitive Studies, Chukyo University
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Noel Enyedy
Graduate School of Education, University of California, at Berkeley

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