How innovation emerges in collectivities in online collaborative learning

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to identify how participants are sharing innovation and creativity processes in online collaborative learning. We analyze the participation framework in a corpus composed of 30 hours of online meetings between undergraduate students, their professors, and international experts. We present a multimodal interaction of verbal and body language in collaborative activity for the analysis of moment-by-moment events in social interaction. Also using conversation analysis, we focus on how participants interact with both verbal and nonverbal expression. The analysis offered has drawn on a methodology to study and identify innovation promoted in online collaborative learning. The interaction between participants is easily observable with multimodal interaction analysis focusing on social interaction processes. We have tried to draw a map of the links between participants in a group interactional process that follows similar patterns and structures. However, in many cases, this order is purposely interrupted by chaos and emergencies to stimulate creativity. We can observe how this disorder is intentionally a part of the structure of this kind of meeting.