At the German Distance Learning University, five collaborative distance learning scenarios
have been recently identified by students and teachers as an important future form of …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the learning effectiveness of cooperative learning
system based on social presence theory. We develop a web-based cooperative learning …

Group formation and access rights management become crucial issues when shared
workspaces are used to support flexible, emerging group work. End-Users should be able to …

This article reports an action research that intended to study to what extent students shape
their writing skill in English through the use of a virtual room. As the study, we randomly …

In this paper, the potential of synchronous net-based learning discourses as a special case
of computer supported cooperative learning (CSCL) is analysed. Discourses among …

Current web-based courses provide only limited means to support cooperative forms of
learning. In this paper we introduce the notion of “Point of Cooperation (PoC)” to classify a …

An apparatus for providing for virtual communication and collaboration comprises a
collaborative virtual environment (CVE) application executing within a distributed data …

Software engineering education is most often complemented by a software engineering
project where a team of students has to develop a large software system. At a distance …

We discuss an integrative design for computer supported cooperative learning (CSCL)
environments. Three common problems of CSCL are addressed: How to achieve social …

In the paper, we present an application of Web3D technologies, X3D with X3DOM and
HTML5, to enhance our e-learning platform DIEL. DIEL exploits the social translucence …