The goals of this working group will be to develop a summary document, assemble an on line bibliographic resource, and develop at least two exemplars of computer supported collaborative settings. The Problem Collaborative projects are the norm in industry and academics, especially projects that involve computing. The problem to be addressed by this working group is how we can effectively support collaboration without compromising the need to assess individual student performance. To restrict the problem, I propose that we focus entirely on Higher Education, that is, address these concerns at the undergraduate and masters level, perhaps drawing from research and experiences at either the K-12 or doctoral level. Collaboration can be interpreted in a number of ways, as can the notion of computer supported learning.
Collaboration can occur within the following relationships.
Needless to say, the collaboration types described below overlap with each other. Collaboration may take the form of a study group, a lab team, or a project team. The most obvious place for this type of collaboration is in research projects. The Artificial Intelligence community draws a fine line between computer as tool and computer as collaborator. While this relationship not should be the focus of this working group, it should be considered.