TY - CHAP

T1 - Flexible scripting in net-based learning groups

AU - Haake, Jörg M.

AU - Pfister, Hans-Rüdiger

PY - 2007/1/1

Y1 - 2007/1/1

N2 - CSCL scripts facilitate cooperative learning by constraining the activities of co-learners and thereby supporting coordination between distributed co-learners as well as guiding co-learners through the collaborative learning process. So far, such scripts have been encoded in CSCL environments and their tools. This made flexible adaptations of scripts an expensive task, which hinders experience-based improvements of CSCL scripts. In this chapter, we present a formal model of CSCL scripts and show how it can be used to help teachers and designers develop, adapt and experiment with CSCL scripts. In our approach, a script is represented as an extended finite state automaton, which is used to control the user interface and the possible activities in a web-based CSCL environment. We distinguish between atomic scripts, which support a specific collaborative learning activity, and composite scripts, which support a complex collaborative learning task through a sequence of atomic or composite scripts. Scripts can be created by a two-step process: defining atomic CSCL scripts, and linking existing scripts into a composite script for the overall learning activity. This approach enables the definition and reuse of CSCL scripts as well as their adaptation to learning groups and learning situations.

AB - CSCL scripts facilitate cooperative learning by constraining the activities of co-learners and thereby supporting coordination between distributed co-learners as well as guiding co-learners through the collaborative learning process. So far, such scripts have been encoded in CSCL environments and their tools. This made flexible adaptations of scripts an expensive task, which hinders experience-based improvements of CSCL scripts. In this chapter, we present a formal model of CSCL scripts and show how it can be used to help teachers and designers develop, adapt and experiment with CSCL scripts. In our approach, a script is represented as an extended finite state automaton, which is used to control the user interface and the possible activities in a web-based CSCL environment. We distinguish between atomic scripts, which support a specific collaborative learning activity, and composite scripts, which support a complex collaborative learning task through a sequence of atomic or composite scripts. Scripts can be created by a two-step process: defining atomic CSCL scripts, and linking existing scripts into a composite script for the overall learning activity. This approach enables the definition and reuse of CSCL scripts as well as their adaptation to learning groups and learning situations.

KW - Business psychology

KW - Collaborative Learning

KW - Cooperative Learning

KW - Finite State Automaton

KW - Computer Support Collaborative Learn

KW - Collaboration Script

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/cac9144e-1ee7-353d-9a04-f8d5dfa3e85e/

U2 - 10.1007/978-0-387-36949-5_10

DO - 10.1007/978-0-387-36949-5_10

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-0-387-36947-1

T3 - Computer-supported collaborative learning series

SP - 155

EP - 175

BT - Scripting Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

A2 - Fischer, Frank

A2 - Kollar, Ingo

A2 - Mandl, Heinz

A2 - Haake, Jorg M.

PB - Springer Verlag

CY - New York

ER -