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Group Formation in CSCL: A Review of the State of the Art

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Group formation in CSCL refers to the process of adequate selection and grouping of students to create scenarios and situations that help the learning to occur more smoothly. Objective: this paper presents a systematic mapping of the literature about group formation for CSCL intended to characterize the state of the art in the field as well as identifying gaps and opportunities for further re-search. Method: We designed a protocol to collect and analyze the literature on group formation in CSCL and carried it out using a rigorous systematic re-view/mapping method established in the literature. Initially, we collected 3571 papers about CSCL that had the potential to provide important information about research on group formation. After initial screening, 423 were recognized as papers related to group formation. After a careful analysis, 106 papers met the necessary requirements/criteria defined in our protocol. Results: each of the 106 papers was categorized according to their contributions using information extracted from this systematic mapping, and a framework to classify research in the field is proposed. Conclusions: this work provides an extensive analysis of the literature on group formation for CSCL offering an overview of the state of the art as well as opportunities for future research. We also create an infographic to summarize our findings, available at http://infografico.caed-lab.com/mapping/gfc/.

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    Simone Borges & Seiji Isotani

  2. Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Kanazawa, Japan

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  3. Federal University of Alagoas, Maceió, AL, Brazil

    Ig Ibert Bittencourt

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Borges, S., Mizoguchi, R., Bittencourt, I.I., Isotani, S. (2018). Group Formation in CSCL: A Review of the State of the Art. In: Cristea, A., Bittencourt, I., Lima, F. (eds) Higher Education for All. From Challenges to Novel Technology-Enhanced Solutions. HEFA 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 832. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97934-2_5

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