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Videoconferencing is expected to become increasingly important for tele-learning environments. This study investigates how to foster cooperative learning through videoconferencing. The selected learning environment was a peer-teaching scenario, which required the learners to teach one another theories. In this study the effects of different types of support for this cooperation were investigated. The main focus is on how both (1) content schemes and (2) cooperation scripts enhance the construction of shared external representations and foster learning outcomes. The results indicate that content schemes as well as cooperation scripts foster the construction of shared external representations. Furthermore, the learners with a cooperation script had higher learning outcomes than those learners without a cooperation script |