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Jarvela, Sanna; Jarvenoja, Hanna – Teachers College Record, 2011
Background/Context: Most of the earlier empirical findings deal with motivation regulation in individual learning situations. This study identifies higher education students' socially constructed motivation regulation in collaborative learning and stresses that regulation of motivation is crucial in socially self-regulated learning because…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Cooperative Learning, Self Management, Group Activities
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Laru, Jari; Naykki, Piia; Jarvela, Sanna – Internet and Higher Education, 2012
In this single-case study, small groups of learners were supported by use of multiple social software tools and face-to-face activities in the context of higher education. The aim of the study was to explore how designed learning activities contribute to students' learning outcomes by studying probabilistic dependencies between the variables.…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Cooperative Learning, Group Activities
Naykki, Piia; Jarvela, Sanna – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2008
This study investigates the process of collaborative knowledge construction when technology and pictorial knowledge representations are used for visualizing individual and groups' shared ideas. The focus of the study is on how teacher-students contribute to the group's collaborative knowledge construction and use each other's ideas and tools as an…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Knowledge Level, Cooperative Learning, Educational Technology
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Laru, Jari; Jarvela, Sanna; Clariana, Roy B. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2012
This study explores how collaborative inquiry learning can be supported with multiple scaffolding agents in a real-life field trip context. In practice, a mobile peer-to-peer messaging tool provided meta-cognitive and procedural support, while tutors and a nature guide provided more dynamic scaffolding in order to support argumentative discussions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Field Trips, Persuasive Discourse
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Arvaja, Maarit; Salovaara, Hanna; Hakkinen, Paivi; Jarvela, Sanna – Learning and Instruction, 2007
The aim of this article is to identify concepts and methods for studying collaboration in context. The article presents a two-level methodology designed to combine individual and group-level perspectives for the evaluation of collaborative knowledge construction in student groups. The group-level analysis is focused on the students' negotiation…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Group Dynamics, Context Effect, Research Methodology
Salovaara, Hanna; Salo, Piritta; Rahikainen, Marjaana; Lipponen, Lasse; Jarvela, Sanna – 2001
There are indications that Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) and accompanying inquiry-based pedagogical practices can enhance student learning. The aim of this study is to experiment CSCL and inquiry-based approach in real classroom situations and to analyze students' approaches in inquiry process in terms of cognitive and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning