Selbst gesteuert kooperativ lernen mit neuen Medien

Self-guided collaborative learning with new media is highly
demanding for the learners concerning collaboration and knowledge
acquisition. Learning in a self-guided and collaborative learning
environment means that a group works and solves tasks autonomously.
In the context of new media the competence of autonomous and
collaborative learning gets increasingly important because virtual
learning environments offer the possibility to learn without
guidelines concerning both a specific structure as well as temporal
or spatial conditions. Therefore, we explain in a first step four
relevant aspects of self-control: the preparation, coordination,
organisation and control of the learning process. These aspects of
self-guided collaborative work with new media are explained with
three examples taken from university (virtual seminar), school
(project work) and further education (virtual learning
environment). Subsequently, general conditions for self-guided
collaborative learning are presented. These comprise the learner’s
motivational, cognitive and meta-cognitive antecedents, his
collaboration and media competence, the structuring of the
interaction with the help of the computer, the task concerning its
necessity of getting solved by a group and finally also the
learners’ reward for their joint effort. The contribution ends with
a short outlook.