Selbst gesteuert kooperativ lernen mit neuen Medien

Self-guided collaborative learning with new media is highly demanding for the learners concerning collaboration and knowledge acquisition. Learning in a self-guided and collaborative learning environment means that a group works and solves tasks autonomously. In the context of new media the competence of autonomous and collaborative learning gets increasingly important because virtual learning environments offer the possibility to learn without guidelines concerning both a specific structure as well as temporal or spatial conditions. Therefore, we explain in a first step four relevant aspects of self-control: the preparation, coordination, organisation and control of the learning process. These aspects of self-guided collaborative work with new media are explained with three examples taken from university (virtual seminar), school (project work) and further education (virtual learning environment). Subsequently, general conditions for self-guided collaborative learning are presented. These comprise the learner’s motivational, cognitive and meta-cognitive antecedents, his collaboration and media competence, the structuring of the interaction with the help of the computer, the task concerning its necessity of getting solved by a group and finally also the learners’ reward for their joint effort. The contribution ends with a short outlook.