Author: David Gañán Jiménez
Programme: Doctoral Programme in Network and Information Technologies
Language: English
Supervisors: Dr. Santi Caballé and Dr. Jordi Conesa
Faculty / Institute: Doctoral School UOC
Subjects: Computer Science
Key words: collaborative learning, computer assisted teaching, information Systems, component design, software infrastructure, application framework, collaborative knowledge engineering, discussion forums
Area of knowledge: Network and Information Technologies
Summary
This thesis project aims to provide a software infrastructure to support new types of pedagogically augmented collaborative learning methodologies and resources by means of an innovative application framework called Virtualized Collaborative Sessions Framework (VCSF). The VCSF helps meet challenging pedagogical requirements in online collaborative learning, such as increasing students' engagement and learning performance during the collaboration. In turn, the systematic application of the VCSF platform, enriched with semantic technologies, enables e-learning developers to leverage successful collaborative learning experiences through software reuse, saving in both development time and effort. The framework has been prototyped and successfully tested in real environments, thus showing the software reuse capability and the pedagogical benefits of the VCSF approach.