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...[[Computer-mediated communication]], [[Distributed cognition]], [[situated cognition]], [[awareness]] ...cognitive processes. The environment consists of both physical context and social context.

...activities. Furthermore it inherits general VE features like social space, social presence, [[awareness tool]]s etc. and that can and should be exploited by * A virtual learning environment is a social space: educational interactions occur in the environment, turning spaces in

{{quotation|Social network analysis is focused on uncovering the patterning of people's intera ...g of a social network, a complete and rigorous description of a pattern of social relationships is a necessary starting point for analysis. That is, ideally

...of distributed cognition. L. Resnick (ed.) Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 283-287. * Hutchins, E. (1994). Cognition in the Wild. Cambridge, MA. MIT Press.

...ncludes the activities/mechanisms performed individually, since individual cognition is not suppressed in peer interaction. But, in addition, the interaction am ...to the group project"). Hence, the 'collaborative' situation is a kind of social contract, either between the peers or between the peers and the teacher (th

...man functioning is determined by (a) '''personal factors''' in the form of cognition, affect, and biological events, (b) '''behavior''', and (c) '''environmenta ...tion | With the publication of Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory, Bandura (1986) advanced a view of human functioning that

...tion specific to the subject, or through the appropriation of pre-existing social schemes. See also: [[cognitive tool]], [[external cognition]]

...tegies]]. It is closely related to [[socio-culturalism]] and [[distributed cognition]] and (probably identical) to [[cognitive apprenticeship]]. * Meaningful learning will only take place if it is embedded in the social and physical context within which it will be used. (Brown et al 1989) accor

...try to enculturate students into authentic practices through activity and social interaction" (Brown et al.). Thus, it is important not only to solve proble complex and important skills, such as those required for language use and social interaction, are learned informally

...constructed through the interplay of existing knowledge and individual (or social) experience. There are several variants, e.g. #* [[Situated cognition]]

...of as a 'social process in which meaning is negotiated, goals emerge from social processes, and success is taken within context' (Young, Barab, & Garrett, 2 ...g Virtual Worlds: Tracing the Historical Development of Learner Practices, Cognition And Instruction, 19(1), 47-94. [http://inkido.indiana.edu/research/onlinema

...ia separate computers through the Internet or a network connection - using social software. CMC does not include the methods by which two computers communica ...novelty but a communication channel through which much of our business and social interaction takes place, and this transformation is expected to continue" (

...[groupware]] application) or based on [[social computing]], e.g. several [[social software]] includes [[note taking]] tools. * Flower, L. S. and Hayes, J. R. (1980) The cognition of discovery: defining a rhetorical problem. College Composition and Commun

===Social constructivism or Socio-Constructivism=== ...e local processes in collaborative learning and in the discussion of wider social collaboration''''' in a given subject, such as science. ([[socio-constructi

...ourse and dialogue (Reichman 1985; Grosz and Sidner 1986), and theories of social interaction (Goffman 1970; Brown and Levinson 1987; Sacks, Schegloff, and J ...ourse and dialogue (Reichman 1985; Grosz and Sidner 1986), and theories of social interaction (Goffman 1970; Brown and Levinson 1987; Sacks, Schegloff, and J

...t effective in formal learning situations: it is situated, contextual, and social.}} ..., Blanchard-Fields, F, Cho, JR and Druhan,B. (1989). Learning, Memory and Cognition, ''J of experimental psychology'', Vol. 15/6 1083-1100

...organization that includes formal or informal hierarchies, some idea of ''social service'' (members helping each other), and a willingness learn from each o ...). A well designed portal that provides both functionality and a sense of "social presence and being there" may help.

...uld include [[situated cognition|situatedness]], i.e. interaction with the social and physical context. ...rring in situations where at least two persons try to solve a problem. The social world of a learner includes the people that directly affect that person, in

...ence of Learning, National Research Council, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, [http://newton.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/ HTML] and [ ...& Sweller, J. (1991). Cognitive load theory and the format of instruction. Cognition and Instruction, 8, 293-332.

Building on top of Salomon's (1991,1993a, 1993c) concepts of distributed cognition, ...agree that symbol systems should be conceptualized as part of distributed cognition, since most cognitive actities rely on symbol processes. On the other hand,