The Didactic-Technology Challenges for Design of the Computer Supported Collaborative Teaching

Abstract

A design of the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) represents a big challenge from an informatics point of view. In general, any computer support of teaching requires existing didactic algorithms for design of the informatics algorithms and writing programming codes. In comparison with technical processes, which are well-standardized, due to the complexity of teaching processes, such algorithms are missing. Moreover, the computer support of collaborative activities requires using the virtual spaces of servers, networks and clouds. Additionally, the lifetime of software and hardware is too short for supporting long-life learning. Contextually, a complex, didactic-technology approach is not researched enough within the fields such as technology-enhanced learning (TEL) or educational technology. This paper presents the authors’ didactic-informatics approach related to these challenges. It is based on developing the in-house education-specific software, knowledge representation, personalized IT infrastructure, and a specific way of solving the knowledge transmission between off-line and online environments to support collaborative activities of teachers and researchers. This complex personalized approach seems to be beyond the state-of-the-art (e.g., a utility model is used).