An infrastructure to support the development of collaborative project-based learning environments

COPSE-Web: An Infrastructure for Developing Web-Based Groupware Applications

“…Dias and Borges [6] present some servers coupled to the environment, and likewise in [17] Santoro and Borges present some adaptations both in the COPSE conception and implementation.…”

“…Different tools share the same document set in the Document Server. The Process Server is responsible for the execution of collaboration process and for the association to a project [5,6,17].…”

Considerations on the application of object-oriented reuse technology to the computer-supported cooperative learning domain

“…Nevertheless, their reusability is minimal out of that context, and prevents a teacher from experimenting different issues in a CSCL, for instance, learning theory, collaboration model, specific interfaces, etc. Works such as [19] [21], consider essential the existence of a dynamic component library in order to increase reusability. An infrastructure to support the development of collaborative project-based learning environments is proposed in [21], composed of an environment and a components repository.…”

“…Works such as [19] [21], consider essential the existence of a dynamic component library in order to increase reusability. An infrastructure to support the development of collaborative project-based learning environments is proposed in [21], composed of an environment and a components repository. Although the infrastructure does not offer explicit support for the development of new components, it does propose to gather the experience on building such components through domain patterns (e.g.…”

“…[l I][ 12][10]), whilst others are specifically targeted at this domain (e.g. [6] [22][15] [21]). The benefits expected from starting the development of a CSCL based on a preexisting, tailorable solution, are the same ones expected in the software engineering field for software development in general.…”