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Collaborative learning

Some projects explore new forms of collaboration amongst groups of learners or workers, specifically for ambitious complex problem solving. This includes innovative solutions for communities of practice.

Projects

ARGUNAUT - An Intelligent Guide to Support Productive Online Dialogue

One of the challenges related to Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning/Working is the proliferation of appropriate tools to assist moderators/tutors in their role to enable effective discussions with an added value to the learning or working process. ARGUNAUT researchers have investigated awareness and feedback mechanisms for facilitating the interaction in e-discussion environments. Technically, the project has explored the use of graphical argumentation maps and artificial intelligence components, such as off-line analysis methods based on machine learning techniques.

Fact sheet - Project web site - ICT Results feature

COOPER - Collaborative Open Environment for Project-Centered Learning

This project has developed a platform for collaborative learning to support individual and collective competency building in remote project teams. The research results can help universities and corporations improve their infrastructure and methodologies in project-centred learning.

Fact sheet - Project web site - ICT Results feature

ELeGI - European Learning GRID Infrastructure

ELeGI set out to support a paradigm shift to learning considered as knowledge construction that combines experiential, contextualised and collaborative approaches in a personalised and ubiquitous way. The work plan was to define and implement a software architecture bringing together Grid, semantic and knowledge technologies.

Fact sheet

L2C - Learning to collaborate

The L2C project has generated a framework for the effective development of collaboration competencies, and for the design of new generation interactive and experiential simulation games. Further results are a virtual learning community contributing to the advancement of knowledge in this field, and a dynamic online knowledge base for capturing the knowledge in the area of collaboration dynamics and related academic disciplines combined with best practices and experiences from a number of industry sectors.

Fact sheet - Project web site

LEAD - Technology-enhanced Learning and Problem-solving Discussions: Networked Learning Environments in the Classroom

LEAD has investigated network learning in classroom situations, i.e. the link between real-life group activities and computer support in collaborative problem-solving processes. Blending theory-driven technology design with empirical educational research, the project has developed, implemented and evaluated conceptual models, practical scenarios and associated networked-computing technologies that provide an added value related to the social, cognitive and developmental processes leading to efficient learning.

Fact sheet - Project web site - ICT Results feature

PALETTE - Pedagogically sustained Adaptive LEarning Through the exploitation of Tacit and Explicit knowledge

PALETTE targets individual and organisational learning in communities of practice. An interoperable and extensible set of innovative services (information services, knowledge management services and mediation services) as well as a set of specific scenarios of use will be designed, implemented and thoroughly validated in communities of practice of diverse contexts. These services and scenarios are expected to increase the quality of learning tasks performed by learning communities of practice by exploiting diverse mental models, knowledge and competences of individual members, and by supporting social interaction, active participation and exchange of both codified and tacit specialist knowledge. Other aims are to facilitate creation of new knowledge, access to and reuse of knowledge and learning resources built by communities of practice.

Fact sheet - Project web site