"Adaptation and personalization have been extensively studied in CSCL research community aiming to design intelligent systems that adaptively support eLearning processes and collaboration. Yet, with the fast development in Internet technologies, especially with the emergence of new data technologies and the mobile technologies, new opportunities and perspectives are opened for advanced adaptive and personalized systems. Adaptation and personalization are posing new research and development challenges to nowadays CSCL systems. In particular, adaptation should be focused in a multi-dimensional way (cognitive, technological, context-aware and personal). Moreover, it should address the particularities of both individual learners and group collaboration. As a consequence, the aim of this book is twofold. On the one hand, it discusses the latest advances and findings in the area of intelligent adaptive and personalized learning systems. On the other hand it analyzes the new implementation perspectives for intelligent adaptive learning and collaborative systems that are brought by the advances in scripting languages, IMS LD, educational modeling languages and learning activity management systems. Given the variety of learning needs as well as the existence of different technological solutions, the book exemplifies the methodologies and best practices through several case studies and adaptive real-world collaborative learning scenarios, which show the advancement in the field of analysis, design and implementation of intelligent adaptive and personalized systems"--SpringerLink Front Matter....Pages 1-14 Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Reuse of Data Flow Designs in Complex and Adaptive CSCL Scripts: A Case Study....Pages 3-27 System Orchestration Support for a Collaborative Blended Learning Flow....Pages 29-46 Adaptive Collaboration Scripting with IMS LD....Pages 47-84 Extending IMS-LD Capabilities: A Review, a Proposed Framework and Implementation Cases....Pages 85-108 Prototype Tools for the Flexible Design of CSCL Activities Based on the Adaptation Pattern Perspective....Pages 109-130 Adapting the Collaborative Strategy ‘Students Team Achievement Divisions’ in an Information Technology Work Place....Pages 131-153 Front Matter....Pages 155-155 Examining the Interrelation between the Interaction Analysis and Adaptation Research Fields within Communication-Based Collaborative Learning Activities: Convergence, Divergence or Complementarity?....Pages 157-178 Making Adaptations of CSCL Scripts by Analyzing Learners’ Online Behavior....Pages 179-194 Behavioural Prototyping©: Making Interactive and Intelligent Systems Meaningful for the User....Pages 195-210 The Design of a Teacher-Driven Intelligent Agent System for Supervising Lessons in LAMS....Pages 211-238 The Text-Based Computer-Mediated Communication in Distance Education Fora: A Modelling Approach Based on Formal Languages....Pages 239-266 Front Matter....Pages 267-267 Antecedents of Collaborative Learning in Massively Multiplayer Online Games....Pages 269-293 Validating Empirically a Rating Approach for Quantifying the Quality of Collaboration....Pages 295-310 Internet-Mediated Communities of Practice: Identifying a Typology of Critical Elements....Pages 311-334 Back Matter....Pages 0--1 Annotation Technology-Enhanced Systems and Tools for Collaborative Learning Scaffolding is a major research theme in CSCL and CSCW research community. This book presents up-to-date research approaches for developing technology-enhanced systems and tools to support functional online collaborative learning and work settings. It comprises a variety of research topics that span from the study of frameworks and infrastructures that foster collaborative learning and work through the application of different methods (distributed e-learning repositories, content creation and customization, social networks, collaborative ontologies building, and educational games) to the use of personalization and adaptation techniques to support the development of more powerful e-collaboration settings, including methodologies and tools for analyzing students' interactions with the aim to increase students' collaborative behaviors, performance and group organization. Researchers will find in this book the latest trends in these research topics, which gives them the opportunity to deepen further on the above issues and to extend their knowledge to other areas. Academics will find practical insights on how to use conceptual and experimental approaches in their daily tasks. Developers from CSCL community can be inspired and put in practice the proposed models and evaluate them for the specific purposes of their own work and context
