Group Cognition: Computer Support for Building Collaborative Knowledge

by Gerry Stahl

Book Overview

Exploring the software design, social practices, and collaboration theory that would be needed to support group cognition; collective knowledge that is constructed by small groups online.

Innovative uses of global and local networks of linked computers make new ways of collaborative working, learning, and acting possible. In Group Cognition Gerry Stahl explores the technological and social reconfigurations that are needed to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262195399
• ISBN13: 9780262195393
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 510 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher