Computer Supported Collaborative Learning in a Multi-Media Distance Education Environment

Distance education has been lately very popular abroad. It is necessary to look through somespecial aspects of lessons construction in blended learning abroad. Many discussions took place abroad about different barriers in distant education. A low degree of communication is part of most barriers to distance education. Communication improvement in distance education greatly depends on capability to manage strategically one’s learning and other people’s learning. Teachers use more and more new information and communication technologies joined with computer supported collaborative learning. Some foreign researchers in their work use the terms “self-regulated learning”, “socially shared regulation of learning”, “computer supported collaborative learning”, which illustrate technological activity in the process of distant learning. Because of such education, students form vitally important skills based in such key competencies as critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork, communication, collaboration, creativity, analytical and inter-cultural skills.

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COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING: PROBLEM SOLVING AND DISTANCE EDUCATION

Computer Assisted Learning ◽

10.1016/b978-0-08-040249-9.50023-4 ◽

1990 ◽

pp. 127-136 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

CLAIRE E. O'MALLEY ◽

EILEEN SCANLON

Keyword(s):

Distance Education ◽

Problem Solving ◽

Collaborative Learning ◽

Computer Supported Collaborative Learning ◽

Learning Problem

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Computer mediated communication and collaborative learning in an undergraduate distance education environment

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology ◽

10.14742/ajet.1845 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Mary Graham ◽

Helen Scarborough

Keyword(s):

Distance Education ◽

Collaborative Learning ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Computer Mediated Communication ◽

First Year ◽

Education Students ◽

Mediated Communication ◽

Education Environment ◽

Computer Mediated ◽

Teaching Of Economics

Deakin University has, over a number of years, committed resources to the development of communication technologies in all aspects of teaching and learning. In 1996, staff in the School of Economics decided to adopt the use of computer mediated communication (CMC) in both the teaching and assessment of the first year microeconomics and macroeconomics units to distance education students.This paper reports on the use of CMC and collaborative learning among distance education students studying first year macroeconomics. Quantitative data is based on questionnaires completed by students over two semesters and qualitative analysis on the experience of both staff and students.Evidence suggests a positive response by students to the use of CMC in the teaching of economics using a collaborative learning approach. This supports the findings of previous studies that students' learning experiences are improved through collaborative learning.

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