Scripting computer-supported collaboration by university students

The present work studies the virtual collaborative elaboration of written documents in three groups of university students, and the influence of the assistance provided by the teacher on this elaboration. For the analysis a model of phases of collaborative construction of knowledge, adapted to the features of the studied tasks, is used. The results show that, although the students follow the instructions proposed by the teacher, they usually do not manage to reach the more advanced phases of collaborative construction of the model.