Soziale Beziehungen in virtuellen kooperativen Lernszenarien

This paper focuses first on the importance of establishing and maintaining social relationships in computer supported cooperative learning (CSCL) scenarios. Furthermore, scales to measure the degree of social relationship building in CSCL-environments (Kreijns, 2004) are introduced based on the concept on sociable CSCL environments. These scales shall measure how far it is possible to build social relationships based on virtual learning platforms. Kreijns’ work, i.e. his concept of ‘sociability’ of virtual learning environments, is compared to own research on group based learning in virtual seminars (Schmidtmann, 2005) and examined in a small empirical study.