CollabABILITY Cards: Supporting Researchers and Educators to Co-Design Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Activities for Deaf Children

Leandro Flórez-Aristizábal (), César Alberto Collazos, Sandra Cano and Andrés Solano
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Leandro Flórez-Aristizábal: Faculty of Engineering, Institución Universitaria Antonio José Camacho, Cali 760046, Colombia
César Alberto Collazos: IDIS Research Group, Universidad del Cauca, Popayán 190003, Colombia
Sandra Cano: School of Informatics Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso 2340000, Chile
Andrés Solano: GITI Research Group, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Cali 760030, Colombia

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 22, 1-47

Abstract: Implementing Collaborative Learning (CL) activities to support the education of children is something that must be carefully designed to achieve the desired goals since just having a group of children working on the same activity does not guarantee proper collaboration. It is something that goes from defining the profile of the students to structuring the collaboration according to the learning objectives, the number of children per group, roles defined, and shared resources among others. Designing Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) activities may be even harder to achieve when collaboration is trying to be accomplished by children with some kind of disability due to differences in the way they communicate or understand the world around them, which is why in this study we decided to focus on designing CSCL activities for deaf children. Since there is not a clear path in the literature to achieve effective collaboration among deaf learners, we propose four stages to be followed through a set of 27 cards that were designed to guide designers/developers and educators through the process of co-designing such activities. The cards were implemented in such a way that they were easy to follow along with, with templates that allowed designers of the CL activity to register all the information related to it. Digital and printed versions of the cards were evaluated by researchers and educators with satisfactory results and a prototype for mobile devices was developed and tested by children through individual and collaborative learning activities.

Keywords: Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning; deaf children education; design; user experience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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