The aims and objectives of this project are:
(1) To provide a specification for the design of an interactive web environment to support group collaboration among geographically dispersed higher education students, based on recent social psychological theorizing about computer-mediated group interaction and ethnographic study of the problem domain of peer-learning and collaboration.
(2) To iteratively develop a prototype software system, comprising a series of interactive web pages to support group interaction and the dynamic presentation of information of social psychological significance for the interactions.
(3) To provide formative and final evaluations of the system prototype through laboratory studies of small group interactions and field studies of international collaboration among higher education students in England and the Netherlands.
