Encouragement of Collaborative Learning Based on Dynamic Groups

Abstract

Nowadays, collaboration between users is present in many web applications. This trend causes that we have to face many new challenges. One of them is group composition which plays very important role and can significantly in- fluence the process of collaboration. In spite of many existing methods which solve group formation problem, there are a lot of unresearched possibilities how to sup- port effective collaboration. We focused on one of them, namely how to create successful small groups iteratively and automatically without students’ participation. We proposed a method which employs Group Technology op- timization approach to create appropriate assignment of users to groups. We evaluated our method in educational domain in a collaborative environment called PopCorm.