Analyzing Interactions in CSCL: Methodology Approaches and Issues deepens the understanding
of ways to document and analyze interactions in CSCL and informs the design of the next
generation of CSCL tools. It provides researchers with several alternative methodologies
theoretical underpinnings of the methods used data indicating how the method worked guidance
for using the methods implications for understanding collaborative processes and their effect
on learning outcomes and implications for design. CSCL research tends to span across several
disciplines such as education psychology computer science and artificial intelligence. As a
result the methods for data collection and analysis are interdisciplinary from fields such as
sociology anthropology psychology computer science and artificial intelligence. This book
brings perspectives together and provides researchers with an array of methodologies to
document and analyze collaborative interactions.
