Collaborative Learning Workshops at CSCL 2003

Workshop Co-Chairs: Gerry Stahl and Päivi Häkkinen

The CSCL 2003 workshop program will be structured as a smorgasbord of collaborative learning experiences. Participants will sample from up to five collaborative workshops to start off their conference experience. The organizers of the workshops have designed collaborative interactions around issues that are important to the CSCL community.

Most workshops will be repeated up to five times for two-hour sessions as follows: Saturday (June 14): 9-11, 12-14, 15-17 and Sunday (June 15): 9-11, 12-14

Workshop participants will be encouraged to attend up to five different activities, although some workshops may be structured to allow participants to attend multiple sessions of the same workshop. Some workshops may only be offered one or two times, but there should be several workshop choices in each time slot. The last two workshops will be in a more traditional format, given for a whole day and open only to pre-registered participants. A schedule can be found here.

Following is a list of collaborative learning workshops:

1. “How to discuss a text in class: Transmission, sharing, and negotiating” (facilitated by Jerry Andriessen, Gijsbert Erkens, Wouter van Diggelen & Maarten Overdijk). Participants will participate in three different ways of collaboratively discussing text in a classroom setting, and will experience the differences this makes for learners. All five time slots.
2. This workshop is CANCELLED. [ "User interface design issues for CSCL environments" (facilitated by Jin Li). This workshop is designed to enable participants to explore and identify the unique issues and challenges for effective user interface design for CSCL environments. Three time slots Saturday.]
3. This workshop is CANCELLED.[“Moving from ‘designing for’ toward ‘learning and designing with’” (facilitated by Steve Harris & Bettina Torpel). This workshop addresses the issues raised by seeking to include end-users as participants in CSCL research and design. Our aim is to achieve a collective exploration of these issues through a structured discussion based on the views and experiences of the practitioners and researchers taking part. Saturday, 15-17.]
4. “Designing an integrated NetSeminar model for Chinese university students” (facilitated by Xu Maoyun & Liu Shulin). The purpose of the workshop is to promote discussion and collaboration about designing an integrated NetSeminar model for Chinese university students in order to foster the students’ communicative efficiency in both spoken and written mode, and cultivate their ability to study collaboratively and independently. Sunday 9-11.
5. “Analyzing online or face-to-face discourse in collaborative data sessions” (facilitated by Timothy Koschmann, Christian Heath & Ivar Solheim). This workshop will consist of a series of data sessions each designed to provide opportunities for those who do video-ethnographic research to share samples of their data and to sharpen their analytic skills. All five time slots.
6. “Researching and evaluating collaborative e-learning groups and communities” (facilitated by Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, David McConnel, Ditte Kolbæk, Elsebeth K. Sorensen, Hakon Tolsby, Sheena Banks, Vic Lally.) Session I: Participants will participate in a discussion of the overall didactical design principles for collaborative virtual learning communities. The discussion takes its point of departure in two cases of distributed CSCL. Session II: Participants will participate in a shared analysis of didactical principles for course work and project work in collaborative virtual learning communities. Sunday 9-11 & Sunday 12-14.
7. “Networking with society: Virtual and physical meetings for exchanging experiences” (facilitated by Eva Fåhraeus, Ingemar Svensson). We will share experiences and ideas about how to improve the contacts between universities and society by using CSCL, hoping to further develop our methods, based on the framework of Activity Theory. Sunday 12-14.
8. “Methodological perspectives on applying activity theory to CSCL research and practice” (facilitated by Daisy Mwanza). This workshop will examine current methods for operationalizing concepts of Activity Theory in relation to the design and analysis of CSCL tools. Three time slots Saturday.
9. “The online mentoring guide: Creating an interactive online mentoring system using the Math Forum problem-of-the-week” (facilitated by Wes Shumar & Kristina Lasher) Participants will use The Math Forum Online Mentoring Guide (OMG) to learn how to mentor students in the Problem-of-the-Week environment. All five time slots.
10. “Design patterns for CSCL” (facilitated by Rune Baggetun & Symeon Retalis) Participants can learn about design patterns, debate and share ideas about their usefulness, and contribute to the identification of particular design patterns of CSCL practice. Three time slots Saturday.
    
    
    
    
    
    

    The two following workshops run as full day events and participants are expected to participate the entire day. Participants need to contact the organizers and inform them of your participation upon registration.

11. "Representational guidance for knowledge-building discourse" (facilitated by Cindy Hmelo-Silver & Dan Suthers). Participants will discuss the role and nature of intermediate representations, such as semantic maps or argumentation graphs, that could be used within collaborative knowledge-building situations. Full day Sunday.
12. “Micro worlds and mind tools for support of educational communities” (facilitated by Andreas Lingnau, et al.) This workshop will focus on computational tools as media for infusing innovative scenarios and new practices in educational communities. Full day Saturday.