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Diziol, Dejana; Walker, Erin; Rummel, Nikol; Koedinger, Kenneth R. – Educational Psychology Review, 2010
Research on computer-supported collaborative learning has shown that students need support to benefit from collaborative activities. While classical collaboration scripts have been effective in providing such support, they have also been criticized for being coercive and not allowing students to self-regulate their learning. Adaptive collaboration…
Descriptors: Student Problems, Learning Activities, Cooperation, Language Processing
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Boughey, Chrissie – International Journal of Educational Research, 2008
This article uses "close-up" ethnographic research to provide an account of students' engagement with learning in a South African university. Broadly based on Halliday's [Halliday, M. A. K. (1973). "Explorations in the functions of language". London: Edward Arnold; Halliday, M. A. K. (1978). "Language as social…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Foreign Countries, College Students, Language Skills
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Case, Jennifer M.; Marshall, Delia – International Journal of Educational Research, 2008
In this paper we explore an alternative way of characterising the student learning experience, drawing on sociocultural perspectives on learning. Here, learning is not merely the application of an approach to a cognitive task, but a social process of identity formation. In particular, we draw on Gee's concept of Discourse models to identify the…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Learning Experience, Learning Processes, Social Environment