Techniques for Fostering Collaboration in Online Learning Communities

Collaboration is to date extensively adopted for supporting learning processes both in face-to-face and in virtual learning contexts. However technology profoundly changes the nature of human interactions and consequently also changes the nature of the collaborative learning process yielding a range of new potentialities and problems. Techniques for Fostering Collaboration in Online Learning Communities: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives provides a focused assessment of the peculiarities of online collaborative learning processes by looking at the strategies methods and techniques used to support and enhance debate and exchange among peers. Offering an extensive discussion of the design management monitoring and evaluation of learning processes this work reviews issues from both a theoretical and practical viewpoint and includes methodological contributions as well as perspectives on real experiences.