Download or read book The Role of Technology in CSCL written by Ulrich H. Hoppe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relates contemporary information and communication technologies (ICT) to their specific teaching and learning functions, including how ICT is appropriated for and by educational or learning communities. The technological "hot spots" of interest in this book include: groupware or multi-user technologies such as group archives or synchronous co-construction environments, embedded interactive technologies in the spirit of ubiquitous computing, and modeling tools based on rich representations.