This book presents a coherent research agenda that has been pursued by
the author and his research group. The book opens with descriptions of
the project and its methodology, as well as situating this research in
the past and present context of the CSCL research field. The core
research team then presents five concrete analyses of group interactions
in different phases of the Virtual Math Teams research project. These
chapters are followed by several studies by international collaborators,
discussing the group discourse, the software affordances and alternative
representations of the interaction, all using data from the VMT project.
The concluding chapters address implications for the theory of group
cognition and for the methodology of the learning sciences.