Studying Virtual Math Teams (pre-publication version)

This volume is a pre-publication version of Studying Virtual Math Teams, published by Springer Press in 2009. These materials were last revised January 1, 2009, from the final manuscript. This version has not been edited, laid out or paginated by Springer Press. Please do not cite page numbers from this version or quote from it. This version is only for informal use and may not be duplicated. Please refer to the Springer Press version for official usage, citation and pagination. This book presents a coherent research agenda that has been pursued by the author and his research group. The book opens with descriptions of the project and its methodology, as well as situating this research in the past and present context of the CSCL research field. The core research team then presents five concrete analyses of group interactions in different phases of the Virtual Math Teams research project. These chapters are followed by several studies by international collaborators, discussing the group discourse, the software affordances and alternative representations of the interaction, all using data from the VMT project. The concluding chapters address implications for the theory of group cognition and for the methodology of the learning sciences.