Originally Held: December 7, 2016
One of the biggest obstacles to scaling collaborative learning is that most people do not have the knowledge nor skills to collaborate well. Many argue that improving collaborative processes requires that groups learn how to monitor and regulate collective thinking processes, but what does this mean and what could this look like?
In this COIL conversation, Dr. Marcela Borge discusses problems associated with collaboration, the process by which a group of people synthesis and negotiate information to develop new knowledge. She unpacks the idea of Socio-metacognition, the understanding of and ability to monitor and regulate group cognition. She then builds on these ideas to discuss a Computer-Supported-Collective Regulation System that she has been developing called CREATE.
CREATE, which stands for Collective Regulation & Enhanced Analysis Thinking Environment, is an online chat space designed to guide students as they evaluate the quality of their online discussions by comparing their existing processes to desired processes. The system then helps them select strategies to improve the quality of future discussions. In this way, we can provide online students with more opportunities to participate in high quality collaborative discussions around course content while helping them to develop important collaborative competencies. The conversation will end with a discussion of opportunities and challenges to scaling the technology including some initial work with adaptive support.
Dr. Borge’s research interests are at the intersection of learning, cognition, and design. Her current research focuses on unpacking group cognition and student needs in order to design new models of interaction and technological tools to enhance learning.
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