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Collaborative Representations

Dan Suthers, Principal Investigator

The Collaborative Representations project is exploring ways to design interactive software in which learners can easily collaborate online while learning with rich representations. The project is also studying how the representations themselves may be designed to guide learners into knowledge-building discourse. Software for online learning is being developed in collaboration with teachers and scientists to help ensure suitability for instructional objectives. Controlled experiments are being undertaken to refine the software design and to assess the effects of the representations on discourse processes and on learning outcomes. Instructional and assessment strategies are being developed in the context of authentic research projects involving students, teachers and scientists, and will be disseminated to teachers through professional development activities. Continued work in this area will contribute to a scientifically tested theory of representationally rich collaborative learning, and inform the design of the next generation of software and associated instructional and assessment strategies for online learning.

A preview of this research is provided on the following pages.

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