"The fact that it is a very recent development makes the language very interesting from an intellectual point of view," said Bernard Caron, a French linguist and secretary of the Akademi, a project set up last year with French government funding to promote research in the social sciences and the humanities, and enhance collaborative work between scholars in France and west Africa.
Surface computing technologies (i.e., interactive tabletops) hold great potential for enhancing collaborative information seeking activities.
The concept of awareness was introduced to underline the importance of shared knowledge and enhance collaborative work.
The analysis revealed the four strategies used when facilitating teams of interprofessional students to enhance collaborative work and professional understanding.
Other aspects, such as software enhanced collaborative analyses (e.g. by revision control), quality assurance as well as reproducibility of analyses remains unknown territory.
These will advance insights and yield benefits to enhance collaborative research, utilise limited resources effectively and share data, technology and expertise.
In particular, it explores the extent to which student engagement - behavioral, affective and cognitive - is fostered by such tools in order to enhance collaborative learning.
This information ecology nurtures and validates a pedagogic process that involves the creation of assessments and environments for knowledge building to enhance collaborative efforts to create and continually improve ideas.
We hypothesise that by reifying conversations as logical maps to address the shortcomings of chronological streams, CCSAV tools underestimate the importance of participation and interaction in enhancing collaborative knowledge-building.
The paper uses the Seven Mile Creek Fuelshed Project as a research context for examining the ways that Geodesign can enhance collaborative planning processes, build knowledge of natural and production systems at the landscape scale, and integrate consideration of feedback from multiple performance criteria into an adaptive and iterative process of landscape planning and design.
