Methodological challenges for collaborative learning research

Strijbos, Jan-Willem and Fischer, Frank (2007): Methodological challenges for collaborative learning research. In: Learning and Instruction, Vol. 17, No. 4: pp. 389-393

Abstract

Research on collaborative learning, both face-to-face and computer-supported, has thrived in the past 10 years. The studies range from outcome-oriented (individual and group learning) to process-oriented (impact of interaction on learning processes, motivation and organisation of collaboration) to mixed studies. Collaborative learning research is multi-disciplinary. This introduces a multitude of theoretical accounts for collaborative learning, accompanied by a broad spectrum of methods to study processes and outcomes of collaboration. This special issue will provide an overview of methods that are at the core of current research effort, but also identifies opportunities and problems to sensibly combine methods into mixed method approaches.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Keywords: Collaborative learning; Cooperative Learning; Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL); Methodology; Description standards; Process Analyses
• Faculties: Psychology and Education Science > Department Psychology > Education and Educational Psychology
• Subjects: 100 Philosophy and Psychology > 150 Psychology; 300 Social sciences > 370 Education
• Language: English