Collaborative Learning Skills Used in Webloger

Abstract

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is an educational setting that merges the idea of group-based learning with communication technology to support teaching. CSCL has attracted many researchers to study the nature of collaborative learning in a virtual context. This article discusses the collaborative learning skills among learners and it also explains the internal and external learning processes in a weblog. A qualitative approach was used to understand the actual processes that took place in this CSCL mode. The findings generally demonstrated that weblog permits learners to operate actively in a virtual mode as it encourages the sharing of information among them. The participants in this study have combined the internal and external factors to actively participate in a virtual context. This formulates an understanding that learning in a CSCL context is a collective mediation.