Mass Collaboration and Education

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· Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series Book 16 · Springer
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Mass collaboration on Internet platforms like Wikipedia and Scratch, along with wider movements like the maker space and citizen science, are poised to have profound impacts on learning and education. Bringing together researchers from such fields as: psychology, education, information technology, and economics, the book offers a comprehensive overview of mass collaboration, novel, cross disciplinary, theoretical accounts, and methodological approaches for studying and improving these massively collaborative enterprises. The book is aimed to serve as an information source for researchers, educators, and designers of platforms and learning environments.

About the author

Ulrike Cress is full professor at the University of Tuebingen and deputy director of the Knowledge Media Research Center. Ulrike Cress conducted many projects about web-based learning (financed by EU, DFG, National and federal ministries of Science. She is Executive Editor of the International Journal of Computer-supported Collaborative Learning and board member of the Educational Psychologist. Furthermore, she is member of the CSCL-Committee within the International Society of the Learning Sciences.

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