  Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) has been a steady topic of
research since the early 1990s, and the trend has continued to this date. The
basic benefits of CSCL in the classroom have been established in many fields of
education to improve especially student motivation and critical thinking. In
this paper we present a systematic mapping study about the state of research of
computer-supported collaborative learning in software engineering education.
The mapping study examines published articles from 2003 to 2013 to find out how
this field of science has progressed. Ongoing research topics in CSCL in
software engineering education concern wider learning communities and the
effectiveness of different collaborative approaches. We found that while the
research establishes the benefits of CSCL in several different environments
from local to global ones, these approaches are not always detailed and
comparative enough to pinpoint which factors have enabled their success.
