Managing collaborative learning processes in e-learning applications

This paper argues that current E-Learning approaches do not take into account process-oriented nature of learning in traditional settings. This situation can be seen as one of the reasons why many E-Learning applications have disappointing results in learning outcome or efficiency of knowledge transfer. To remedy this deficiency in modern E-Learning a tool that supports management of collaborative learning processes has been implemented at University of Technology Graz. This paper presents that tool and outlines its implementation. At last, the paper discusses a number of directions for the future work to support collaborative learning processes in E-Learning applications.