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[5. Education on the WEB]

5.2 The WWW as collaboration tool

person-to-person interactions (e.g. individual tutoring and monitoring as well as collaboration between students)
- Not: "person-to-many-persons" delivery of learning material and learning instructions (e.g. exercises, educational text, educational software, instructional information)

Uses of asynchronous communication on the Web:

Organizing better information exchange among students
- (who does what, students have to turn in html pages)
Distribution of work to be shared
- Students have to coordinate over the network
Co-writing of text
- Students have to co-produce over the network
Discussion & Conferencing
- Students have to comment text and argument about ideas

High need for synchronous CSCW extensions

Prototypes: Web-Chat, WWW<->MOO, .... exist

New roles for "Teachers" and "fellow learners"

Teachers

With networked computers, teachers become rather:
"information organizers", "tutors", "facilitators"
.... instead of "information transmitters".

Fellow learners

The Network favors collaborative work,
which in turn favors learning
(see: Dillenbourg & Schneider 95)

PS: Cooperative learning works well under certain conditions and there exist several mechanisms ( 10.3)

Uses of asynchronous communication on the Web:
High need for synchronous CSCW extensions
New roles for "Teachers" and "fellow learners"
Teachers
Fellow learners
PS: Cooperative learning works well under certain conditions and there exist several mechanisms ( 10.3)

FLISH Slides - 27 MAR 95

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