Title
Investigating the effect of coopetition designs on students' perceived social support in collaborative learning.
Abstract
Social support is often related to successful problem-solving and enhanced achievement. However, limited research on it has been conducted in collaborative learning settings, where research attention has been primarily placed on sophisticated technologies and cognitive domains. Considering existing problems in collaborative learning, including low levels of individual accountability and free rider issues, and the importance of social support and coopetition for collaborative learning, this study investigated the effect of coopetition designs on the development of social support in collaborative learning. A quasi-experiment was conducted in the naturalistic learning setting to explore effects of zero-sum coopetition, social-comparison coopetition, and the collaboration-only design on three subscales of social support (emotional, esteem, and informational social supports). The findings indicated that the two coopetition designs surpassed the collaboration-only design in strengthening social support and acad...
Year
Venue
Field
2017
IJSMILE
Competitive learning,Collaborative learning,Coopetition,Free rider problem,Knowledge management,Psychology,Accountability,Cognition,Social support
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
5
4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wang Xinghua15013.66
Qiyun Wang221819.23