Building a Flexible CSCL Experiment PLATFORM

CSCL experiment platform shall provide the collaborative learning activities and/or experiments with the necessary support, which obviously requires the platform to own remarkable flexibility. Mainly centering on the resources and/or tools, the existing CSCL system can only fit the collaborative learning activities in specific fields, but not those in other fields. The practices from the CSCL Experiments direct our attention to that an excellent support platform of collaborative learning shall be “flexible”. This paper focuses on how to build a “flexible” CSCL experiment platform, discussing the connotation of the “flexibility” and lunching a train of ideas and methods. CSCLEP, a project developed by adoption of these ideas, is introduced as well.