Previous research shows that many students find it difficult to learn computer programming. To learn computer programming includes both gaining theoretical understanding and learning to develop programmes in practice. To this end, teachers commonly design programming exercises for the students in the computer laboratory. To be able to improve the…

Drawing on cases of teachers' collaborative learning from Sweden and Australia, this paper explores how practices of collaborative learning come about or 'travel' within and between schooling sites. The paper describes collaboration as a learning practice arising from specific conditions which influence relevant stakeholders in pre-schools,…

A theoretical model of collective learning has been developed based on complex systems theory. The need for collective learning is illustrated by an empirical study of an "unsuccessful" organizational-renewal project in a Swedish Telecom firm. The conclusion, using chaordic systems thinking as a diagnostic framework, is that its interior…