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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Shared and Personal Learning Spaces: Challenges for Pedagogical Design
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Hakkinen, Paivi; Hamalainen, Raija – Internet and Higher Education, 2012
The development of new tools for collaboration, such as social software, plays a crucial role in leisure time and work activities. The aim of this article is to summarize the research in the field of computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL). This is done particularly from the perspective of the blurred line between individual (personal)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Practices, Cooperative Learning, Educational Research
Learning to Collaborate: Designing Collaboration in a 3-D Game Environment
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Hamalainen, Raija; Manninen, Tony; Jarvela, Sanna; Hakkinen, Paivi – Internet and Higher Education, 2006
To respond to learning needs, Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) must provide instructional support. The particular focus of this paper is on designing collaboration in a 3-D virtual game environment intended to make learning more effective by promoting student opportunities for interaction. The empirical experiment eScape, which…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Games, Educational Environment, Problem Solving
Mechanisms of Common Ground in Case-Based Web Discussions in Teacher Education.
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Makitalo, Kati; Hakkinen, Paivi; Leinonen, Piritta; Jarvela, Sanna – Internet and Higher Education, 2002
Explores how participants in Web-based conferencing establish and maintain common ground in order to reach deeper levels of interaction in case-based Web discussions. Describes a Web-based conferencing course that included preservice teachers and mentors from three universities, and showed the need for written feedback and peer support to…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Discussion (Teaching Technique), Feedback, Higher Education