Intelligent Collaborative e-Learning Systems and Applications

✍ Scribed by Stavros Demetriadis, Anastasios Karakostas (auth.), Thanasis Daradoumis, Santi Caballé, Joan Manuel Marquès, Fatos Xhafa (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 197
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 246
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Intelligent Collaborative e-Learning Systems and Applications is a major research theme in CSCL and CSCW research community. It comprises a variety of research topics that focus on developing systems that are more powerful and flexible and also more adaptable to the learning process and thus provide better answers to the paradigmatic principles of on-line collaborative learning and work. The chapters collected in this book provide new insights, findings and approaches both on the analysis and the development of more powerful e-collaboration settings. Researchers will find in this book the latest trends in these research topics. On the other hand, academics will find practical insights on how to use conceptual and experimental approaches in their daily tasks. Finally, developers from CSCL community can be inspired and put in practice the proposed models and evaluate them for the specific purposes of their own work and context.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Introduction to Adaptive Collaboration Scripting....Pages 1-18
Combining Streaming Media and Collaborative Elements to Support Lifelong Learning....Pages 19-36
‘MULTIPLES’: A Challenging Learning Framework for the Generation of Multiple Perspectives within e-Collaboration Settings....Pages 37-51
E-Learning at Work in the Knowledge Virtual Enterprise....Pages 53-63
Communities of Practice Environment (CoPE): Democratic CSCW for Group Production and E-Learning....Pages 65-81
Critical Thinking as a Framework for Structuring Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication within Learning Design-Based E-Learning Systems....Pages 83-98
Constructing a Multi-agent System for Discovering the Meaning over Natural-Language Collaborative Conversations....Pages 99-112
CoLPE: Support for Communities of Learning Practice by the Effective Embedding of Information and Knowledge about Group Activity....Pages 113-127
Detecting and Solving Negative Situations in Real CSCL Experiences with a Role-Based Interaction Analysis Approach....Pages 129-146
DyMRA: A Decentralized Resource Allocation Framework for Collaborative Learning Environments....Pages 147-169
A Semantic Description Model for the Development and Evaluation of Grid-Based, Innovative, Ubiquous and Pervasive Collaborative Learning Scenarios....Pages 171-187
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computers and Education; e-Commerce/e-business