Investigation 3. A Relational, Indirect, Meso-level Approach to CSCL Design in the Next Decade

Chris Jones; Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld; Berner Lindtröm

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49157-4_3

Investigation 3. A Relational, Indirect, Meso-level Approach to CSCL Design in the Next Decade

Chris Jones^*, Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Berner Lindtröm

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Abstract

This paper reviews some foundational issues that we believe will affect the progress of CSCL over the next 10 years. In particular, we examine the terms technology, affordance, and infrastructure, and we propose a relational approach to their use in CSCL. Following a consideration of networks, space, and trust as conditions of productive learning, we propose an indirect approach to design in CSCL. The work supporting this theoretical paper is based on the outcomes of two European research networks: E-QUEL, a network investigating e-quality in e-learning; and Kaleidoscope, a European Union Framework 6 Network of Excellence. In arguing for a relational understanding of affordance, infrastructure, and technology, we also argue for a focus on what we describe as mesolevel activity. Overall this paper does not aim to be comprehensive or summative in its review of the state of the art in CSCL but rather to provide a view of the issues currently facing CSCL from a European perspective.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Theoretical Investigations : Philosophical Foundations of Group Cognition
Editors	Gerry Stahl
Number of pages	20
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2021
Pages	65-84
Chapter	3
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-49156-7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-49157-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49157-4_3
Publication status	Published - 2021

Series	Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
Volume	18
ISSN	1573-4552

Bibliographical note

This is a reprint of a journal article from 2006:

Published online: 21 March 2006
International Society of the Learning Sciences, Inc., Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2006
Jones, C., Dirckinck-Holmfeld, L., & Lindstrom, B. (2006). A relational, indirect, meso-level approach to CSCL design in the next decade. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. 1(1), 35–56.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-006-6841-7

Keywords

CSCL
Networked learning
Affordances
Infrastructure
Meso level
Indirect design

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Dirckinck-Holmfeld, L., Raudaskoski, P. L., Sorensen, E. K., Ryberg, T., Buus, L., Øhrstrøm, P., Bygholm, A. K. M., Nyvang, T., Larsen, M. C., Vargas Brenes, R., Coto Chotto, M., Møller, B. & Vuust, J.
FP6
01/01/2004 → 31/12/2007
Project: Research

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A relational, indirect, meso-level approach to CSCL design in the next decade
Jones, C., Dirckinck-Holmfeld, L. & Lindström, B., 2006, In: International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. 1, 1, p. 35-56 21 p.
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