Methodological challenges for collaborative learning research

Jan Willem Strijbos (1) , Frank Fischer (2)

1 Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences
2 Faculty of Education and Educational Psychology

Research on collaborative learning, both face-to-face and computer-supported, has thrived in the past 10 years. The studies range from outcome-oriented (individual and group learning) to process-oriented (impact of interaction on learning processes, motivation and organisation of collaboration) to mixed studies. Collaborative learning research is multi-disciplinary. This introduces a multitude of theoretical accounts for collaborative learning, accompanied by a broad spectrum of methods to study processes and outcomes of collaboration. This special issue will provide an overview of methods that are at the core of current research effort, but also identifies opportunities and problems to sensibly combine methods into mixed method approaches (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959475207000503)

Mots clés: methodology; description standards; process analyses

Domaines: Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain; Education

Jan Willem Strijbos, Frank Fischer. Methodological challenges for collaborative learning research. Learning and Instruction, 2007, 17(4), pp.389-393. ⟨hal-00703920⟩