Manathunga, KalpaniHernández Leo, Davinia2015-11-252015-11-252015Manathunga K, Hernández-Leo D. Has research on collaborative learning technologies addressed massiveness? J Educ Techno Soc. 2015;18(4):357-370.1176-3647http://hdl.handle.net/10230/25204There is a growing interest in understanding to what extent innovative educational technologies can be used to/nsupport massive courses. Collaboration is one of the main desired elements in massive learning actions/ninvolving large communities of participants. Accumulated research in collaborative learning technologies has/nproposed and evaluated multiple models and implementation tools that engage learners in knowledge-intensive/nsocial interactions fostering fruitful learning. However, it is unclear to what extent these technologies have been/ndesigned to support large-scale learning scenarios involving arguably massive participation. This paper/ncontributes with a literature review that aims at providing an answer to this question as well as offering insights/nabout the context of use, characteristics of the technologies, and the types of activities and collaboration/nmechanisms supported. The main results point out that till 2013 the level of massiveness considered in top/nscientific journal papers on collaborative learning technologies was low, the scenarios studied were/npredominantly contextualized in co-located higher education settings using Learning Management Systems, the/nmost common activities considered were open and structured discussion, followed by peer assessment and/ncollaborative writing, and the most broadly used mechanism to foster fruitful collaboration was group formation/nfollowing diverse policies.application/pdfengThis article of the Journal of Educational Technology & Society is available under Creative Commons CC-BY-ND-NC/n3.0 licenseinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleLiterature reviewEducational technologiesCollaborative learningLarge classesMassive coursesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess