This review aims to clarify the concept and boundary of research on online learning
communities, identify the major trends of research, and suggest pertinent issues for future …

Our attempts at describing the processes involved in learning and knowledgebuilding
activities depend on our ways of conceptualizing the context in which such activities take …

Net‐based collaborative learning discourses often suffer from deficiencies such as lack of
coherence and coordination. It is suggested that the provision of two functionalities …

Learning takes place over long periods of time that are hard to study directly. Even the
learning experience involved in solving a challenging math problem in a collaborative …

Understanding collective creativity is crucial for advancing the general study of human
creativity as well as for guiding the design of creativity support tools for small teams and …

Little is known of the interplay between deixis and eye movements in remote collaboration.
This paper presents quantitative results from an experiment where participant pairs had to …

Dual interaction spaces--that combine text chat with a shared graphical work area--have
been developed in recent years as CSCL applications to support the synchronous construc …

In today's society, the quantity of information available to learners is so vast that new
strategies of information processing and exchange must be continually developed and …

Explicit Referencing is a mechanism for enabling deictic gestures in on-line communication.
Little is known about the impact of ER on distance problem solving. In this paper, we report …

This paper describes a narrative-oriented approach to the design and the analysis of a
computational system and a set of activities for mathematical learning. Our central …