Real-Time Mutual Gaze Perception Enhances Collaborative Learning and Collaboration Quality

AbstractResearch on collaborative learning has revealed that peer-collaboration explanation activities facilitate reflection and metacognition and that establishing common ground and successful coordination are keys to realizing effective knowledge-sharing in collaborative learning tasks. Studies on computer-supported collaborative learning have investigated how awareness tools can facilitate coordination within a group and how the use of external facilitation scripts can elicit elaborated knowledge during collaboration. However, the separate and joint effects of these tools on the nature of the collaborative process and performance have rarely been investigated. This study investigates how two facilitation methods—coordination support via learner gaze-awareness feedback and metacognitive suggestion provision via a pedagogical conversational agent (PCA)—are able to enhance the learning process and learning gains. Eighty participants, organized into dyads, were enrolled in a 2 × 2 between-subject study. The first and second factors were the presence of real-time gaze feedback (no vs. visible gaze) and that of a suggestion-providing PCA (no vs. visible agent), respectively. Two evaluation methods were used: namely, dialog analysis of the collaborative process and evaluation of learning gains. The real-time gaze feedback and PCA suggestions facilitated the coordination process, while gaze was relatively more effective in improving the learning gains. Learners in the Gaze-feedback condition achieved superior learning gains upon receiving PCA suggestions. A successful coordination/high learning performance correlation was noted solely for learners receiving visible gaze feedback and PCA suggestions simultaneously (visible gaze/visible agent). This finding has the potential to yield improved collaborative processes and learning gains through integration of these two methods as well as contributing towards design principles for collaborative-learning support systems more generally.

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Web Conferencing in Distance Education

Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-198-8.ch340 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 2298-2305

Author(s):

M. Michelle Panton

Keyword(s):

Distance Education ◽

Collaborative Learning ◽

Learning Environment ◽

Real Time ◽

Web Sites ◽

Web Site ◽

Web Conferencing ◽

Collaborative Learning Environment ◽

Screen Sharing ◽

Share Information

Web conferencing is a technology that allows groups of individuals in a variety of diverse locations to communicate and share information without having to leave their desks. It provides features such as whiteboarding, screen sharing, chat, and polling. It eliminates the need to travel, reduces downtime, increases efficiency, and reduces costs. AT&T worked on proofs of concepts and prototypes for personal conferencing systems for 20 years and finally released its product in 1993 (Perey, 2003). Microsoft released NetMeeting in about 1995. Wooley now lists 95 real-time collaboration products and Web sites on his Web site, ThinkofIt. com. The growth of real-time collaboration has grown significantly and been more successful in the last few years, as the CPUs in PCs are faster, the PCs have more memory, and more bandwidth is available and cheaper. Frost and Sullivan’s 2002 report estimates that by 2008, $2 billion will be spent on Web conferencing (as cited by Perey, 2003). This technology allows a business to conduct training simultaneously, globally creating a collaborative learning environment while keeping costs down.

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Real-time detection of low-achieving groups in face-to-face computer-supported collaborative learning

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers - ICETC '18 ◽

10.1145/3290511.3290565 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jeongyun Han ◽

Wonjong Rhee ◽

Young Hoan Cho

Keyword(s):

Collaborative Learning ◽

Real Time ◽

Computer Supported Collaborative Learning ◽

Face To Face ◽

Real Time Detection

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Intelligent Edutab Box: Supporting Real-Time Face-to-Face Collaborative Learning

Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics ◽

10.20965/jaciii.2021.p0258 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 258-269

Author(s):

Yuto Omae ◽

Kazutaka Mizukoshi ◽

Tatsuro Furuya ◽

Takayuki Oshima ◽

Norihisa Sakakibara ◽

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Keyword(s):

Collaborative Learning ◽

Real Time ◽

Information And Communications Technology ◽

Learning System ◽

Computer Supported Collaborative Learning ◽

Learning Groups ◽

Educational Benefits ◽

Face To Face ◽

E Learning ◽

Learning Analysis

Educational benefits of collaborative learning have been demonstrated in several studies and various systems have been developed to date. Numerous efforts have been made to enhance these benefits by supporting collaborative learning with information and communications technology. These efforts have primarily involved support for constructing collaborative learning groups, for collaborative learning in e-learning environments, and for collaborative learning analysis. This study aims to develop a computer-supported collaborative learning system that supports instructors in real time to facilitate collaborative learning in a face-to-face environment with multiple learners at the same time to provide enhanced support. Both the learner and instructor have one tablet terminal and conduct collaborative learning in a single classroom. Herein, the learner can use the tablet to save an educational log and freely browse the educational log of another learner. By referencing the educational logs, learners can learn through face-to-face communication. Additionally, the instructor can determine (1) who is viewing whose educational log and to what extent and (2) which learner is struggling to achieve targets. Herein, an overview of the proposed system is provided and the results obtained using the proposed system are reported to evaluate its effectiveness.

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