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Working hard in the 'office': an ethnomethodological study of on-line workshops

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Hasan Al-Matrouk David WastellAuthors Info & Claims

CSCL '02: Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning: Foundations for a CSCL Community

Pages 619 - 620

Published: 07 January 2002 Publication History

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This paper demonstrates the usefulness of ethnomethodology as a perspective for studying CSCL, with excerpts and findings from a case study of on-line workshops conducted using Office Hours Live. Ethnomethodology, with its focus on the detail of practical action and interaction, provides a particularly useful way of understanding whether and how CSCL technologies can support such interaction. The paper highlights important issues for the design of technology and the organisation of on-line.

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CSCL '02: Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning: Foundations for a CSCL Community

January 2002

757 pages

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Gerry Stahl
Fraunhofer - FIT, Germany

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International Society of the Learning Sciences

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Published: 07 January 2002

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