Paper Info
Title
Using Interactive Graphical Tools to Overcome the "Collage Effect" in Collaborative Learning Environments
Abstract
The "collage effect" occurs when participants in a collaborative learning environment post non-collaborative contributions to a shared workspace, as opposed to contributions that are co- constructive. The resulting artifacts become a collage of individual contributions that do not fully engage the partici-pants in the collaborative learning process. Most online, asynchronous collaborative tools only allow participants to participate with textual interactions, which discourage co-construction in ways discussed in the paper. Graphical tools could provide better affordances for co-construction. HTML provides little support to represent inter-active graphical elements in online environments. However, with SVG and AJAX, we can create inter-active graphical tools in an online environment. Using SVG and AJAX, we implemented concept maps in an online learning environment called MapCourse. We used MapCourse in several different asynchro-nous online assignments in two different courses. Our analyses suggest that concept maps encourage more co-constructive contributions than wikipages.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/HICSS.2011.477
System Sciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
computer aided instruction,computer graphics,hypermedia markup languages,AJAX,HTML,MapCourse,SVG,asynchronous collaborative tools,asynchronous online assignments,collaborative learning environment,collaborative learning process,collage effect,concept maps,interactive graphical elements,interactive graphical tools,online environments,online learning environment,post noncollaborative contribution,textual interactions
Scalable Vector Graphics,Concept map,Asynchronous communication,World Wide Web,Collaborative learning,Constructive,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Ajax,Affordance,The Internet
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-1605
978-1-4244-9618-1
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christopher R. Slade100.34
Daniel D. Suthers2920126.11