This volume, edited by a top scholar in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), presents important papers from the first decade of the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (ijCSCL). The selected papers represent a positivist approach to reality and data, as well as the paradigm of thought that many researchers in the field were initially trained in, and which continues to dominate the methodology of much of the work in the area and influence the later development of a second, social-constructivist paradigm of research. The articles in the volume are se - lected by the former Editor-in-Chief of ijCSCL, who has written critical commentaries on them from the perspective of influences on his own evolving understanding of CSCL. The book is broken down into three parts: Theory – broadening the scope of CSCL; Methodology – analyzing the mechanisms of CSCL; and Practices – innovative appli - cations of CSCL. This volume is the only large-scale theoretical reflection on the field of CSCL, while simultaneously representing a broad selection of perspectives and ap - proaches. It is essential as a graduate text for courses in educational theory, instructional design, learning and networked technologies, as well as apply with vital centrality to researchers and practitioners in those areas.weiterlesen