Table Of ContentComputer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series
Ulrike Cress
Johannes Moskaliuk
Heisawn Jeong Editors
Mass
Collaboration
and
Education
Computer-Supported Collaborative
Learning Series
Series Editors
Christopher Hoadley
Naomi Miyake
More information about this series at h ttp://www.springer.com/series/5814
Ulrike Cress • Johannes Moskaliuk
Heisawn Jeong
Editors
Mass Collaboration
and Education
Editors
Ulrike Cress Johannes Moskaliuk
Knowledge Media Research Center University of Tuebingen
Tuebingen , Germany Tuebingen , Germany
Heisawn Jeong
Hallym University
Chuncheon , Kangwon-do
Korea (Republic of)
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series
ISBN 978-3-319-13535-9 ISBN 978-3-319-13536-6 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-13536-6
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Contents
Part I Introduction
Mass Collaboration as an Emerging Paradigm for Education?
Theories, Cases, and Research Methods ....................................................... 3
Ulrike Cress , Heisawn Jeong , and Johannes Moskaliuk
Part II Theoretical Approaches to Mass collaboration
A Brief History of Mass Collaboration: How Innovations
Over Time Have Enabled People to Work Together More Effectively ...... 31
Allan Collins
Exploring, Understanding, and Designing Innovative Socio-Technical
Environments for Fostering and Supporting Mass Collaboration ............. 43
Gerhard Fischer
Stigmergic Collaboration: A Framework for Understanding
and Designing Mass Collaboration................................................................ 65
Mark Elliott
Mass Collaboration as Coevolution of Cognitive and Social Systems ........ 85
Ulrike Cress , Insa Feinkohl , Jens Jirschitzka , and Joachim Kimmerle
What Is Knowledge? Who Creates It? Who Possesses It?
The Need for Novel Answers to Old Questions ............................................ 105
Aileen Oeberst , Joachim Kimmerle , and Ulrike Cress
From Distributed Cognition to Collective Intelligence: Supporting
Cognitive Search to Facilitate Online Massive Collaboration .................... 125
Wai-Tat Fu
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Part III Cases of Mass Collaboration
Patterns of Meaning in a Cognitive Ecosystem: Modeling
Stabilization and Enculturation in Social Tagging Systems ........................ 143
Tobias Ley , Paul Seitlinger , and Kai Pata
Individual Versus Collaborative Information Processing:
The Case of Biases in Wikipedia .................................................................... 165
Aileen Oeberst , Ulrike Cress , Mitja Back , and Steffen Nestler
Toward Participatory Discovery Networks: A Critique
of Current Mass Collaboration Environments and a Possible
Learning-Rich Future ..................................................................................... 187
R. Benjamin Shapiro
Coding by Choice: A Transitional Analysis of Social Participation
Patterns and Programming Contributions in the Online
Scratch Community ........................................................................................ 209
Deborah A. Fields , Y asmin B. Kafai , and Michael T. Giang
Supporting Diverse and Creative Collaboration in the Scratch
Online Community.......................................................................................... 241
Ricarose Roque , Natalie Rusk , and Mitchel Resnick
Citizen Science: Connecting to Nature Through Networks ........................ 257
Brigid Barron , Caitlin K. Martin , Véronique Mertl ,
and Mohamed Yassine
Altogether Now! Mass and Small Group Collaboration
in (Open) Online Courses: A Case Study ..................................................... 285
Sabrina C. Eimler , German Neubaum , Marc Mannsfeld ,
and Nicole C. Krämer
Socio-Technical Procedures of Facilitated Mass Collaboration
for Creative E-Participation ........................................................................... 305
Thomas Herrmann
Part IV Methods to Empirically Analyze Processes
of Mass Collaboration
Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Networked Knowledge .................. 331
Iassen Halatchliyski
Applying Network Models and Network Analysis Techniques
to the Study of Online Communities ............................................................. 347
H. Ulrich Hoppe , Andreas Harrer , Tilman Göhnert , and Tobias Hecking
Contents vii
Mass Collaboration on the Web: Textual Content Analysis
by Means of Natural Language Processing .................................................. 367
Ivan Habernal , Johannes Daxenberger , and Iryna Gurevych
Identification of Causal Effects in the Context
of Mass Collaboration ..................................................................................... 391
Olga Slivko , Michael Kummer , and Marianne Saam
Part I
Introduction
Mass Collaboration as an Emerging
Paradigm for Education? Theories, Cases,
and Research Methods
Ulrike Cress , Heisawn Jeong , and Johannes Moskaliuk
Mass Collaboration as Topic of Computer-Supported
Collaborative Learning
The Internet has tremendously advanced the opportunities for collaboration and
education; particularly the number of people that can be involved in learning and
knowledge building processes has increased to unprecedented levels. Web 2.0
developments during the last 10 years have enabled mass collaboration in a literal
sense. Thousands of users make contributions to Wikipedia. There is a growing
number of massive open online courses (MOOCs) being created and offered. They
make it possible to offer online courses that exceed traditional classroom sizes many
times over. Hundreds of thousands of people from around the world can participate
in online courses offered by well-known universities. Moreover, contributions of
thousands of amateur scientists have been instrumental when it comes to collecting
and/or analyzing large sets of data. As citizen scientists, they participate in scientifi c
research—be it for counting birds or analyzing data from NASA Mars missions.
U. Cress (*)
Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien Tuebingen, Knowledge Construction Lab ,
Tuebingen , Germany
e-mail: [email protected]
H. Jeong
Department of Psychology , Hallym University , Chuncheon , South Korea
e-mail: [email protected]
J. Moskaliuk
Applied Cognitive Psychology and Media Psychology , University of Tuebingen,
Tuebingen , Germany
e-mail: [email protected]
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