Title
CSCL and Vocational Education: A Bond Worthy of Investigation?
Abstract
Vocational education and training (VET) is tasked to develop its practices toenhance learners’ collaboration skills. Collaborative technologies play an increasing role ininitial VET. This paper presents a systematic review on the use of CSCL in initial VET.Starting from an initial set of 823 papers, identified in major databases, each paper was codedby multiple researchers to identify demographics (sample sizes, countries, work domains),methods (data sources, technology design) and outcomes (analysis, forms of collaboration).Finally, only 26 papers met our selection criteria, which illustrates that CSCL research isdominated by K-12 and higher education contexts, while vocational learning contexts areunder-represented in this field of study. This observation spurs the question if there isanything unique in VET worthy of being investigated through a CSCL framework. Ouranalysis hints at a positive answer to this question, both for technological and collaborativecomponents.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
CSCL
Bond,Vocational education,Computer science,Design technology,Knowledge management,Mathematics education,Demographics,Higher education
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Beat Schwendimann1887.28
Bram de Wever222222.61
Raija Hämäläinen316114.33
Alberto Cattaneo412.04