Name
Title | ||
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Algebra jam: supporting teamwork and managing roles in a collaborative learning environment |
Abstract | ||
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We are building a collaborative learning environement that supports teams of students as they collaborate synchronously and remotely to solve situated, multi-step problems involving algebraic modeling. Our system, named Algebra Jam, provides a set of tools to help students overcome two of the most serious impediments to successful collaboration: establishing common ground and maintaining group focus. These tools include tethered and untethered modes of operation including discrepancy notification, a goal-oriented team blackboard, object-oriented chat with collabicons, reification of problem solving roles, and the optional inclusion of a tutor agent as a virtual team participant. The tutor agent not only offers help and feedback on problem solving actions but also accumulates evidence about individual and group problem solving performance in a Bayesian inference network. The system is envisioned as a testbed for developing theories of teaming. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2000 | 10.1145/358916.358985 | CSCW |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
goal-oriented team blackboard,algebra jam,multi-step problem,group problem,algebraic modeling,virtual team participant,group focus,tutor agent,accumulates evidence,bayesian inference network,development theory,bayesian inference,goal orientation,collaborative learning environment,object oriented | Situated,Teamwork,TUTOR,Collaborative learning,Bayesian inference,Algebra,Computer science,Knowledge management,Testbed,Human–computer interaction,Common ground,Virtual team | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
1-58113-222-0 | 10 | 1.97 |
References | Authors | |
8 | 5 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark K. Singley | 1 | 93 | 29.38 |
| Moninder Singh | 2 | 381 | 105.12 |
| Peter G. Fairweather | 3 | 96 | 10.98 |
| Robert Farrell | 4 | 134 | 58.12 |
| Steven Swerling | 5 | 22 | 3.22 |