Overview
- Presents new theoretical conceptions for understanding mass collaboration in education
- Brings together researchers from information technology, education, and psychology
- Offers methods of analyzing massive open online learning environments
Part of the book series: Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series (CULS, volume 16)
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About this book
Mass collaboration on Internet platforms like Wikipedia and Scratch, along with wider movements like the maker space and citizen science, are poised to have profound impacts on learning and education. Bringing together researchers from such fields as: psychology, education, information technology, and economics, the book offers a comprehensive overview of mass collaboration, novel, cross disciplinary, theoretical accounts, and methodological approaches for studying and improving these massively collaborative enterprises. The book is aimed to serve as an information source for researchers, educators, and designers of platforms and learning environments.
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Introduction
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Theoretical Approaches to Mass collaboration
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Cases of Mass Collaboration
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mass Collaboration and Education
Editors: Ulrike Cress, Johannes Moskaliuk, Heisawn Jeong
Series Title: Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13536-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-13535-9Published: 19 February 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79188-3Published: 30 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-13536-6Published: 08 February 2016
Series ISSN: 1573-4552
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0157
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 411
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour