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The digitalization of higher education has been on the political agenda for decades. Many universities have invested in Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs) which is a technology intense environment designed for collaborative teaching and learning. The aim of this paper is to explore students' interaction with each during computer supported collaborative learning in an Active Learning Classroom. An action-oriented approach was applied within the context of a university in Sweden. The framework of interaction order and the concept of ‘involvement’ and ‘mutual monitoring’ is used as an analytic lens to examine student collaboration. The results show that the classroom arrangement including the technology set-up played an important role in students’ collaboration, causing transparency in activities and makes it more difficult for students to become passive. Contributions includes unpacking the role of collaborative technology and suggesting the concept “involvement disclosure” to shed light on the mechanisms that conditioning students’ engagement in this setting.

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Interaction Disclosed: Unpacking Student Computer Supported Collaborative Learning

The digitalization of higher education has been on the political agenda for decades. Many universities have invested in Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs) which is a technology intense environment designed for collaborative teaching and learning. The aim of this paper is to explore students' interaction with each during computer supported collaborative learning in an Active Learning Classroom. An action-oriented approach was applied within the context of a university in Sweden. The framework of interaction order and the concept of ‘involvement’ and ‘mutual monitoring’ is used as an analytic lens to examine student collaboration. The results show that the classroom arrangement including the technology set-up played an important role in students’ collaboration, causing transparency in activities and makes it more difficult for students to become passive. Contributions includes unpacking the role of collaborative technology and suggesting the concept “involvement disclosure” to shed light on the mechanisms that conditioning students’ engagement in this setting.

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