... concepts in planetary science. This paper investigates how specific instructional design choices and features of the technology fostered collaborative behaviors. Design/methodology/approach GeoForge was implemented in 3 middle school classrooms with a total of 220 students. Learners used...

...Laura Palmgren-Neuvonen; Karen Littleton; Noora Hirvonen Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how dialogic spaces were co-constituted (opened, broadened and deepened) between students engaged in divergent and convergent collaborative learning tasks, orchestrated by teachers in Finnish...

...Laurent Antonczak; Thierry Burger-Helmchen Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine mobile technology as being a key apparatus and interface for collaborative innovation, which allows organisations to develop their information ecology. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative...

...Yuxin Chen; Christopher D. Andrews; Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver; Cynthia D'Angelo Purpose Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is widely used in different levels of education across disciplines and domains. Researchers in the field have proposed various conceptual frameworks toward...

... solving and collaboration are among the targeted skills in twenty-first century, this model promotes the acquisition of these skills towards a holistic development of students in primary and secondary school settings. In this direction, teaching students to think like a computer scientist, an economist...

...Benjamin M. DeVane; Jeremy Dietmeier; Kristen Missall; Salloni Nanda; Michala Cox; Ben J. Miller; Ethan Valentine; Deb M. Dunkhase Purpose This paper aims to present an iterative approach to creating a collaborative design-and-play skatepark videogame for a children’s museum physics exhibit...

...Eddie W.L. Cheng; Samuel K.W. Chu; Carol S.M. Ma Purpose Wikis, as one of the Web 2.0 tools, has been increasingly used to engage students to learn with others in a collaborative virtual environment. However, there are relatively few studies examining the application of wikis in secondary schools...

...Selenay Aytac Purpose The purpose of the present study was to examine the outcomes of more collaborative library information literacy instruction for international English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students. Design/methodology/approach This study used action research and employed three...

...Kirsten Kinsley; Leslie Brooke Hill; Daniel Maier-Katkin Purpose – The purpose of this article was to describe a university library instruction and research model that represents a collaborative effort between faculty, libraries, and the campus reading writing center. It uses rigorous research...

...Sara Valla Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the initial phases of the formation of the Co‐Lab as a community at the University of Parma, which aims to foster informal ways of collaboration among students, professors, researchers, with a view to increasing results in learning...

... as situating it in relation to recent trends regarding library outreach to and collaboration with student services. An overview of the development and implementation is provided along with the results of a multi‐year assessment of the initiative. Findings The mindful leveraging of collections not only...

...Bruce E. Massis Purpose The purpose of this column is to discuss the importance of faculty/librarian collaboration in establishing a base of reference support to serve as an underpinning for each course across the college curriculum. Design/methodology/approach Literature review and commentary...

... Collaboration Outreach Often the library participates in campus orientation for new and incoming students, which speaks well to the partnerships that libraries have formed within their campus communities. In addition, rather than taking place in library facilities, activities take place elsewhere...

..., 2011). In essence, the groundwork for forming deeper collaborations between established and potential library‐campus partnerships can be laid in pre‐assessments and environmental scan data. Evidence had to be gathered and considered during the impact‐cost analysis to justify the formation...