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Authors:
Diana Saplacan
Keywords: Digital Learning Environments (DLE); Higher Education (HE); Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW); Common Information Spaces (CIS); information spaces.
Abstract:
This paper addresses the cross-use of different Digital Learn-ing Environments (DLE) in Higher Education (HE). The paper aims to analyze DLEs and their use in a HE organizational entity through the lens of Common Information Spaces (CIS), a concept grounded in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). In general, CSCW literature focuses on individual systems regarded as CIS. Moreover, the research shows that DLEs are often analyzed from an educational perspective, and less from a cooperative work perspective. However, a teaching/learning context can be viewed as a co-dependent cooperative work arrangement, where the exchange of information and knowledge is performed through- and with the help of DLEs. In this way, DLEs should be rather viewed as being part of a complex cooperative ensemble rather than analyzed as individual CIS. This paper sheds light on such complex information spaces, where the information spaces are formed through clusters of DLEs, rather than individual DLE units. Finally, the contribution of the paper consists of addressing the cross-use of DLEs from a CIS perspective, moving beyond looking at DLEs just through an educational perspective.
Pages: 76 to 85
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020
Publication date: March 22, 2020
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4138
ISBN: 978-1-61208-761-0
Location: Valencia, Spain
Dates: from November 21, 2020 to November 25, 2020