Background: Despite its potential, collaborative learning is not always successful. Learners often have difficulties to overcome regulation problems such as diverging goals within their group. If group members have different (i.e. heterogeneous) perceptions of the group’s current regulation problems…
Women use technology to mediate numerous aspects of their professional and personal lives. Yet, few design and create these technologies given that women, especially women of color, are grossly underrepresented in computer science and engineering courses. Decisions about participation in STEM are fr…
This article describes a principled approach to the design of computer-based tools for use in collaborative instruction. We argue that a project should progress through four steps: (a) making explicit the instructional requirements that serve as design goals for the project; (b) performing a detaile…
