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A COPERNICAN TURN FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FLEXIBLY REUSABLE SCAFFOLDS AND COLLABORATION SCRIPTS: THE S-COL APPROACH
Wecker, C., Stegmann, K., Bernstein, F., Huber, M., Kalus, G., Kollar, I., Rathmayer, S., Fischer, F.
International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. 5(3) (2010) 321–343 - http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00703896
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Christof Wecker1, Karsten Stegmann1, Florian Bernstein2, Michael Huber2, Georg Kalus2, Ingo Kollar1, Sabine Rathmayer2, Frank Fischer1
1:  Faculty of Education and Educational Psychology
University of Munich
Germany
2:  Fakultät für Informatik
http://www.in.tum.de/
Technische Universität München
TU München ; Institut für Informatik DEK-IN ; Boltzmannstr. 3 ; D-85748 Garching
Germany
Computer Science/Technology for Human Learning
Humanities and Social Sciences/Education
A COPERNICAN TURN FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FLEXIBLY REUSABLE SCAFFOLDS AND COLLABORATION SCRIPTS: THE S-COL APPROACH
Collaboration scripts are usually implemented as parts of a particular collaborative-learning platform. Therefore, scripts of demonstrated effectiveness are hardly used with learning platforms at other sites, and replication studies are rare. The approach of a platform-independent description language for scripts that allows for easy implementation of the same script on different platforms has not succeeded yet in making the transfer of scripts feasible. We present an alternative solution that treats the problem as a special case of providing support on top of diverse Web pages: In this case, the challenge is to trigger support based on the recognition of a Web page as belonging to a specific type of functionally equivalent pages such as the search query form or the results page of a search engine. The solution suggested has been implemented by means of a tool called S-COL (Scripting for Collaborative Online Learning) and allows for the sustainable development of scripts and scaffolds that can be used with a broad variety of content and platforms. The tool’s functions are described. In order to demonstrate the feasibility and ease of script reuse with S-COL, we describe the flexible re-implementation of a collaboration script for argumentation in S-COL and its adaptation to different learning platforms. To demonstrate that a collaboration script implemented in S-COL can actually foster learning, an empirical study about the effects of a specific script for collaborative online search on learning activities is presented. The further potentials and the limitations of the S-COL approach are discussed. (http://www.springerlink.com/content/007t4441mqu3u213/)
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International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning.
not specified
2010
5(3)
321–343

collaboration scripts – web-based learning
Collaborative learning
Scaffolding