The emergence of team-assembly technologies has brought with it new challenges in
designing and implementing socio-technical systems. Our understanding of how systems …

Social networking-based learning (SN-learning) is one of the most promising innovations to
promote learning via a social network, and thus, providing a more interactive, student …

LearnSphere is a web-based data infrastructure designed to transform scientific discovery
and innovation in education. It supports learning researchers in addressing a broad range of …

Algorithms, drawn from Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, are increasingly being used
in distance education. However, currently little is known about the attitudes of distance …

Transactivity is a valued collaborative process, which has been associated with elevated
learning gains, collaborative product quality, and knowledge transfer within teams. Dynamic …

This paper reports on work adapting an industry standard team practice referred to as Mob
Programming into a paradigm called Online Mob Programming (OMP) for the purpose of …

In this dissertation, I integrate research on small groups with computer science literature to
theorize how recommender systems support people assemble teams. I argue that team …

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are, as the name suggests, online courses that can
accommodate massive amounts of learners and are open to everyone. They are one of the …

Collective Intelligence [Woolley et al. 2010], which is meant to predict the general ability of a
group to work together across a range of tasks, is defined and measured using collections of …

A challenge to meet the demand on higher education and professional development is to
scale these educational opportunities while maintaining their quality. My dissertation work …