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An Authoring Platform for CSCL Script Definition

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Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Human and Technology Ecosystems (HCII 2020)

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Computer Supported Collaborative Learning scripts define pedagogically effective practices for organizing collaborative activities. This paper presents a novel platform for defining CSCL scripts. This platform is composed of the following components: a) a formal language named COSTLy for the specification of CSCL scripts based on logic and constraints, b) a visual environment that facilitates the authoring of scripts, based on the formal language, and c) a mechanism that translates the abstract definitions of scripts into constraint logic programs, thus implementing group formation and task distribution of actual scenario instances. The expressiveness of the proposed language was evaluated. Also the results of a usability evaluation of the proposed platform are reported in the paper. It was shown that university students were able to use the platform in order to describe CSCL scripts of high complexity.

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  1. University of the Aegean, 83200, Karlovassi, Greece

    Andreas Papasalouros & George Chatzimichalis

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  1. Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

    Panayiotis Zaphiris

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    Andri Ioannou

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Papasalouros, A., Chatzimichalis, G. (2020). An Authoring Platform for CSCL Script Definition. In: Zaphiris, P., Ioannou, A. (eds) Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Human and Technology Ecosystems. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12206. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50506-6_43

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