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CSCL (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning) scripts describe pedagogically effective practices for organizing the experiences of individuals when engaged in collaborative activities. This paper presents a new language named COSTLy for describing certain mechanisms of CSCL scripts, namely, group formation and task distribution. The expressiveness of the proposed language is demonstrated by describing jigsaw, a well-known CSCL script. The proposed descriptions are automatically transformed into constraint logic programs which can be executed so as to support group formation in actual scenario instances.
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Papasalouros, A. (2018). Formalizing CSCL Scripts with Logic and Constraints. In: Pammer-Schindler, V., Pérez-SanagustÃn, M., Drachsler, H., Elferink, R., Scheffel, M. (eds) Lifelong Technology-Enhanced Learning. EC-TEL 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11082. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98572-5_68
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