Increasing curricular demands and the desire to provide meaningful, engaging instruction
have pressed teacher educators to review and revise their programs. Many have viewed the …

Social network researchers have claimed that relations offline affect relations online;
however, it is unclear which characteristics of online interaction are affected by the existence …

In this paper we will describe and evaluate some methods for analysing the talk and
interaction of students, or other types of partners, when they are working together, face-to …

This paper explores how wikis may be used to support primary education students'
collaborative interaction and how such an interaction process can be characterised. The …

This article describes what happened when adult learners in a literacy education class
participated in online book discussions. Forty students, enrolled in a graduate literacy class …

In the last decades, views on learning and instruction have changed fundamentally. Simons
et al.(2000a) mention three important reasons for this change. First, greater attention is …

How can researchers understand the complexity of classroom interactions? That is a key
question for many scholars in education. This book has grown out of a series of professional …

This exploratory work describes and analyses the collaborative interactions that emerge
during computer-based music composition in the primary school. The study draws on socio …

Apart from studying students' interaction in Web-based environments in computer-supported
collaborative learning (CSCL), it is essential to recognize the importance of the contextual …

Classroom discourse is structured by socially accepted ways in which knowledge is
presented and by established procedures for carrying out educational activities. However …