Teaching

Information from HIS-LSF

Research topics

• Collaborative learning
• Computer-supported collaborative learning environments
• Building and maintaining shared understanding (mechanisms of common ground)
• Uncertainty in collaborative situations
• Help seeking activities in collaborative learning situations
• Collaborative scripts
• Mixed method research (combining qualitative and quantitative approaches)

Current projects

• Postdoctoral research project: "Help seeking processes in differently scripted computer-supported collaborative learning environments: how to support adaptive help seeking?" (Academy of Finland, 2009-2011; SA prooject 126643)
• Orchestration of help processes in the classroom

Selected publications

• Mäkitalo-Siegl, K., Kohnle, C., & Fischer, F. (2011). Computer-supported collaborative inquiry learning and classroom scripts: Effects on help-seeking processes and learning outcomes. Learning and Instruction, 21 (2), 257-266.
• Mäkitalo-Siegl, K., Zottmann, J., Kaplan, F., & Fischer, F. (Eds.). (2010). Classroom of the future: Orchestrating collaborative spaces. Rotterdam, the Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
• Mäkitalo-Siegl, K. (2009). Interaction in online learning environments. How to support collaborative activities in higher education settings. Saarbrücken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing.
• Mäkitalo-Siegl, K. (2008). From multiple perspectives to shared understanding: A small group in an online learning environment. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 52 (1), 77-95.
• Mäkitalo, K., Weinberger, A., Häkkinen, P., Järvelä, S., & Fischer, F. (2005). Epistemic cooperation scripts in online learning environments: Fostering learning by reducing uncertainty in discourse? Computers in Human Behavior, 21 (4), 603-622.