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Awareness of Complementary Knowledge in CSCL: Impact on Learners’ Knowledge Exchange in Small Groups

Authors : Melanie Erkens, Sven Manske, H. Ulrich Hoppe, Daniel Bodemer

Published in: Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Existing research covers the positive impact of two significant support measures on reciprocal knowledge exchange in small groups: grouping learners with complementary knowledge and enhancing the awareness on co-learners by providing cognitive information on them (cognitive group awareness). Although a combination of both seems obvious, its benefits have not yet been investigated. Thus, we conducted an experimental study in a real classroom setting using a 2 × 2 mixed design to investigate the effects of support in knowledge-complementary groups (with/without cognitive group awareness) and the level of co-learners’ knowledge (high/low) on self-assessed communication behavior. Although our results did not confirm interaction effects, the additional objective observation of one third of the learning groups (6 out of 18) yielded a different picture: In supported groups, co-learners exchanged knowledge in a more intended way and chose a better order of talking about topics, both indicating an added value of providing the learners cognitive information.

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Title: Awareness of Complementary Knowledge in CSCL: Impact on Learners’ Knowledge Exchange in Small Groups
Authors: Melanie Erkens
Sven Manske
H. Ulrich Hoppe
Daniel Bodemer
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-28010-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-28011-6

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28011-6_1

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