E-Collaborative Knowledge Construction: Learning from Computer-Supported and Virtual Environments

In today's society, the quantity of information available to learners is so vast that new strategies of information processing and exchange must be continually developed and improved.

E-Collaborative Knowledge Construction: Learning from Computer-Supported and Virtual Environments explores the construction of beneficial e-collaborative knowledge environments from four vital perspectives: educational, psychological, organizational, and technical. It offers several scenarios where the implementation of e-collaborative knowledge construction is necessary and then not only presents methods for facilitating e-collaborative knowledge construction, but also provides methods for assessing its results. This exciting new publication is a must-have for academics, researchers, and professionals who dare to discover new innovations!

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborative Scientific Conceptual Change
• Community of Research
• Distributive Cognitive Processing
• E-Collaborative Knowledge Construction
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Human-Human Interaction
• Scripting Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
• Social Web
• Transactive Memory
• Virtual Learning Environments