Cress U., Moskaliuk J., Jeong H. (Eds.) Mass Collaboration and Education

Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016. — 409 p. — (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series) — ISBN: 978-3-319-13535-9.Mass collaboration on Internet platforms like Wikipedia and Scratch, along with wider movements like the maker space and citizen science, are poised to have profound impacts on learning and education. Bringing together researchers from such fields as: psychology, education, information technology, and economics, the book offers a comprehensive overview of mass collaboration, novel, cross disciplinary, theoretical accounts, and methodological approaches for studying and improving these massively collaborative enterprises. The book is aimed to serve as an information source for researchers, educators, and designers of platforms and learning environments.Mass Collaboration as an Emerging Paradigm for Education? Theories, Cases, and Research Methods
A Brief History of Mass Collaboration: How Innovations Over Time Have Enabled People to Work Together More Effectively
Exploring, Understanding, and Designing Innovative Socio-Technical Environments for Fostering and Supporting Mass Collaboration
Stigmergic Collaboration: A Framework for Understanding and Designing Mass Collaboration
Mass Collaboration as Coevolution of Cognitive and Social Systems
What Is Knowledge? Who Creates It? Who Possesses It? The Need for Novel Answers to Old Questions
From Distributed Cognition to Collective Intelligence: Supporting Cognitive Search to Facilitate Online Massive Collaboration
Patterns of Meaning in a Cognitive Ecosystem: Modeling Stabilization and Enculturation in Social Tagging Systems
Individual Versus Collaborative Information Processing: The Case of Biases in Wikipedia
Toward Participatory Discovery Networks: A Critique of Current Mass Collaboration Environments and a Possible Learning-Rich Future
Coding by Choice: A Transitional Analysis of Social Participation Patterns and Programming Contributions in the Online Scratch Community
Supporting Diverse and Creative Collaboration in the Scratch Online Community
Citizen Science: Connecting to Nature Through Networks
Altogether Now! Mass and Small Group Collaboration in (Open) Online Courses: A Case Study
Socio-Technical Procedures of Facilitated Mass Collaboration for Creative E-Participation
Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Networked Knowledge
Applying Network Models and Network Analysis Techniques to the Study of Online Communities
Mass Collaboration on the Web: Textual Content Analysis by Means of Natural Language Processing
Identification of Causal Effects in the Context of Mass Collaboration