Roles in computer-supported collaborative learning

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Introduction

The role concept has an important function in various types of collaborative learning and collective learning.

Several authors, e.g. Strijbos & Weinberger (2010) distinguish between emerging and scripted roles, i.e. between roles that emerge from interaction patterns of the participants and roles that are defined in a learning scenario, e.g. in CSCL script.

Strijbos and de Laat (2009) discerned three levels of the role concept: micro (role as task), meso (role as pattern) and macro (role as stance).

Bibliography

• Strijbos Willem-Jan & Maarten F. De Laat (2010) Developing the role concept for computer-supported collaborative learning: An explorative synthesis, Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 26, Issue 4, Emerging and Scripted Roles in Computer-supported Collaborative Learning, July 2010, Pages 495-505, doi:10.1016/j.chb.2009.08.014

• Strijbos Jan-Willem & Armin Weinberger (2010). Emerging and scripted roles in computer-supported collaborative learning, Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 26, Issue 4, Emerging and Scripted Roles in Computer-supported Collaborative Learning, July 2010, Pages 491-494, DOI:10.1016/j.chb.2009.08.006

Links

• Special issue on Emerging and Scripted Roles in Computer-supported Collaborative Learning, Computers in Human Behavior (Strijbos and Weinberger, eds.) DOI:10.1016/S0747-5632(10)00098-1