The LEAD Project: Computer Support for Face-to-Face Collaborative Learning

Abstract

The LEAD project stresses that one of the important challenges with regard to technology-enhanced learning is to develop effective networked-computing support for face-to-face collaborative learning. To achieve this one has to gain a deeper understanding of face-to-face collaborative learning and the technology that supports the communicative processes that are involved. The LEAD project will enhance state-of-the-art research by studying this complex interplay within a collaborative classroom setting, an arrangement that has hardly been addressed in educational research and practice.

Project team: Utrecht University, Research Centre Learning in Interaction; Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris; Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, St-Etienne; University of Salerno, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione; University of Salerno, Dipartimento di Informatica e Applicazioni; University of Nottingham, Learning Sciences Research Institute; ICATT Interactive Media, Amsterdam; Tilburg University, Faculty of Arts; University of Lyon, Interactions, Corpus, Apprentissages, Représentations.