Group awareness widgets for enhancing social interaction in computer-supported collaborative learning environments: Design and implementation

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Kreijns, Karel ^a   Kirschner, Paul A ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL); Distributed learning group (DLG); Group awareness widget (GAW); Sociability; Social affordances; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL WORKSPACE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; DISTRIBUTED LEARNING GROUPS; ELECTRONIC COURSE BOOK; GROUP AWARENESS WIDGETS; SCALABLE INTERNET EVENT NOTIFICATION ARCHITECTURE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUN MICROSYSTEMS OPENOFFICE;

DISTANCE EDUCATION;

EID: 0036949786     PISSN: 01905848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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