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Roles Interaction During Mobile-Blended Collaborative Learning: The Impact of External Scripts

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Blended Learning: Re-thinking and Re-defining the Learning Process. (ICBL 2021)

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Roles played by group members is an important topic within the collaborative learning field. External scripts (ES) providing collaboration skills are one of the prominent scaffolding technology in CSCL (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning). This study designed a mobile-blended collaborative learning environment to explore how ES affect collaborative roles. A three-round inquiry experiment was conduct to investigate the role emergence and coordination over time. Reflection questionnaires and group worksheets were collected from the experiment class (31 students) with ES and control class (33 students) without ES. Qualitative thematic analysis and quantitative statistical analysis were adopted. Five role categories (coordinator, integrator, inquirer, facilitator, and marginal) and a role transition formula were proposed in this study. Results indicate that ES affects task awareness of group members and the rotation of social status in mobile-blended collaboration with a 1:1 tablet-to-student ratio.

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This research is supported by the project “Research on the management of education reform and innovation in the era of ‘Internet plus’” supported by The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [Grant No. 71834002].

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    Cixiao Wang

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  2. Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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  3. Kansai University, Osaka, Japan

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  4. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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Wang, C. (2021). Roles Interaction During Mobile-Blended Collaborative Learning: The Impact of External Scripts. In: Li, R., Cheung, S.K.S., Iwasaki, C., Kwok, LF., Kageto, M. (eds) Blended Learning: Re-thinking and Re-defining the Learning Process.. ICBL 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12830. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80504-3_16

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