Programme

Note: All conference rooms are equipped with a PC (including PowerPoint), a beamer and a sound system.

Each presentation will last 30 minutes.

Wednesday 21 March 2001

Registration at the conference location (MECC) 14.00 - 17.30 hrs

Thursday 22 March 2001

Registration from 08.30 hrs

Start of the conference programme: 09.30 hrs

Welcome, by Professor Dr Arie Nieuwenhuizen Kruseman, Rector Universiteit Maastricht

The relevance of CSCL for day-to-day educational practice, by Ir Anneke Eurelings, Director Maastricht McLuhan Institute

Keynote address by Dr Paul Dourish: "Tools for evolving practice"

Session 1 (1.5 hour)

1.1 Analysis Track: The analysis of collaborative interactions

• Metacognitive processes in problem solving with CSCL in mathematics (Tarja-Riitta Hurme, Sanna Järvelä)
• Analysis teaching and learning interactions in a networked environment: Issues and work in progress (Vic Lally)
• Analysing the mechanism of common ground in collaborative web-based interaction (Kati Mäkitalo, Piritta Salo, Päivi Häkkinen, Sanna Järvelä)

1.2 Evaluation track: Cross-system Studies

• Collaborative learning through computer-mediated communication in academic education (Arja Veerman, Else Veldhuis-Diermanse)
• Using a theoretical framework for the evaluation of sequentiability, reusability and complexity of development in CSCL applications (César Osuna, Yannis Dimitriadis, Alejandra Martínez)
• Computer-mediated epistemic interactions for co-constructing scientific notions: Lessons learned from a 5-year research programme (Michael Baker, Erica de Vries, Kristine Lund, Matthieu Quignard)

1.3 Technology track: Agents and intelligent support in CSCL-environments

• A digital library-based recommender service for multimedia development in a learning community (Robert Allen, Wiwat Puntai)
• Coaching collaboration by comparing solutions and tracking participation (Maria de los Angeles Constantino-Gonzalez, Daniel D. Suthers)
• Towards personalised learning communities on the web (Jesus Boticario, Elena Gaudioso, Carlos Catalina)

1.4. Pedagogy Track: Problem-Based Learning

• Dewey's contribution to a standard of Problem-Based Learning practice (Timothy Koschmann)
• Computer-supported collaborative argumentation: Supported Problem-Based Learning in legal education (Chad Carr)
• Theory-anchored evaluation applied to a CSCL intense course in Bioinformatics (Siv Anderssson, Ernst Brodin, Hans Hindbeck, Jan-Olov, Höög, Monica Langerth-Zettermann, Helge Strömdahl)

Session 2 (2 hours)

2.1 Analysis track: Frameworks for analysing collaborative interactions

• Designing social infrastructure: The challenge of building computer-supported learning communities (Katherine Bielaczyc)
• Evaluating affordance short-circuits by reviewers and authors participating in on-line journal reviews (Elizabeth Lenell, Gerry Stahl)
• The complexity of distributed collaborative learning: Unit of analysis (Annita Fjuk, Sten Ludvigsen)
•  A framework for analysing critical thinking in computer conferences (Walter Archer, D. Randy Garrison, Terry Anderson, Liam Rourke)

2.2. Evaluation track: Evaluation of CSCL environments Managing CSCL projects.

• Defining and evaluating CSCL projects (John Nash, Leo Plugge, Anneke Eurelings)
• A cross-case comparison of BSCW in different educational settings (Klaas Sikkel, Lisa Gommer, Jan van der Veen)
• Students interacting with and through a cognitive apprenticeship learning environment (Jacob Tholander)

 2.3 Technology track: Technologies for building CSCL-environments

• Integrating the CSCL activities into virtual campuses: Foundations of a new infrastructure for distributed collective activities (Gregory Bourguin, Alain Derycke)
• From mirroring to guiding: A review of state of the art technology for supporting collaborative learning (Patrick Jermann, Amy Soller, Martin Muehlenbrock)
• Learning by creating multipoint of view scientific hyperbooks (Gilles Falquet, Jean-Pierre Hurni, Jacques Guyot, Luka Nerima)
• Design and analysis of learners' interaction based on collaborative learning ontology (Akiko Inaba, Taketoshi Tamura, Ryoji Ohkubo, Mitsuru Ikeda, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Jun'ichi Toyoda)
•  ANTS: A new collaborative learning framework (Pedro Garcia Lopez, Robert Rallo Molla, Merce Gisbert, Antiono Gómez Skarmeta)

2.4. Pedagogy Track: Collaborative learning scenarii

• Studio zone: A web-based environment for design critiques (Denise Conanan, Nichole Pinkard)
• Talk Tracks - Learning from practitioners deliberating on their problems (Klas Karlgren)
• Teaching community health by exploiting international socio-cultural and economical differences (A. Berger, R. Moretti, P. Chastonay, P. Dillenbourg, A. Bchir, R. Baddoura, P. Farah, C. Bengondo, P. Ndumbe, B. Kayers)
• The complex jigsaw as an enhancer of collaborative knowledge building in undergraduate introductory cognitive science courses (Naomi Miyake, Hiroyuki Masukawa, Hajime Shirouzu)

Session 3 (1 hour)

3.1 Analysis track: Learning Communities

• Analyzing patterns of participation and discourse in elementary students' online science discussion (Lasse Lipponen, Marjaana Rahikainen, Jiri Lallimo, Kai Hakkarainen)
• The Virtual Graduate College "Knowledge acquisition and knowledge exchange with new media" (Rolf Ploetzner, Michael Diehl, Friedrich Hesse, Peter Reimann, Hans Spada, Gerhard Strube, Werner Tack, Rainer Westermann)

3.2 Evaluation track: Collaborative virtual environments

• Learner-centred open virtual environments as places (Mary Lou Maher, Simeon J. Simoff, Steve Clark)
• Social navigation and the role of persistent structures in a collaborative virtual environment (Jenny Robins)

3.3. Technology track: Tools for building CSCL-environments

• A group based system for group based learning (Colin Allison, David McKechan, Alan Ruddle)
• Workgroup Hypermedia Editor: A tool to support a strategy for cooperative hypermedia production (M. Cossentino, U. Lo Faso)

Research Network Report

• Norwegian Network for IT-Research and Competence in Education (Ola Erstad)

Friday 23 March 2001

Registration from 08.30 hrs

Start of the conference programme: 09.30 hrs

Keynote address by Prof. Dr David Wood: "Contingent tutoring and computer-based learning"

Presentation, by Wim Jansen, European Commission: "Information Society Technologies for Education and Training: Past, present and future"

Session 4 (1.5 hour)

4.1: Analysis track: The analysis of collaborative interactions

• Characteristics of university students' inquiry in individual and computer-supported collaborative study process (H. Muukkonen, M. Lakkala, K. Hakkarainen)
• Mapping interactions in a computer conferencing environment (Canan Tosunoglu Blake, Lucia Rapanotti)
• Beyond "sitting next to each other": A design experiment on knowledge building in teacher education (Jan van Aalst, Carol K.K. Chan)

4.2. Evaluation track: Evaluation of CSCL environments

• Start-Trek meets Slackers: The impact of collaborative learning systems on school performance (Joe Cullen)
• Collaborative learning through Forum Systems - Problems and opportunities (Eva Fahraeus)
• Collaborative writing in a computer-integrated classroom for early learning (Frank Tewissen, Andreas Lingnau, Ulrich Hoppe, Gerd Mannhaupt, Daniel Nischk)

4.3 Technology track: Standards for knowledge representation in CSCL

• Educational metadata: Teacher's friend or foe? (Peter Rachada Monthienvichienchai, Angela Sasse, Richard Wheeldon)
• A proposal to support the design of experimental learning activities (M.F. Verdejo, B. Barros, R. Rodríguez-Artacho)
• Using genre to support active participation in learning communities (Trevor Collins, Paul Mulholland, Stuart Watt)

4.4. Pedagogy track: Innovative scenario for CSCL

• CSCL in the classroom: The promotion of self-reflection in group work for 9-10 year olds (Mary Ulicsak, Harry Dnaiels, Mike Sharples)
• Building a European Internet School: Developing the OTIS Learning Environment (Gillian Armitt, Sharon Green, Martin Beer)
• Project-based learning as a basis for a CSCL environment: An example in educational robotics (Sébastien George, Pascal Leroux)

On Friday, during lunch, all members of the Euro-CSCL 2001 Steering Committee and those interested, are invited to discuss the next Euro-CSCL Conference in room 0.4 / 0.5.

Session 5 (1.5 hour)

5.1 Analysis track: Argumentation & learning

• Model-based feedback supports reflective activity in collaborative agreement (Christine Diehl, Michael Ranney)
• Computer-supported collaboration in argumentative writing (Gijsbert Erkens, Jos Jaspers, Hermina Tabachneck-Schijf, Maaike Prangsma)
• Effects of argumentative activities on collective and individual arguments (Baruch Schwarz, Yair Neuman, Julia Gil, Merav Ilya)

5.2 Evaluation track: Learning and working

• Changing tools, changing attitudes: Effects of introducing a CSCL system to promote learning at work (Daisy Mwanza)
• Courses as seeds: Expectations and realities (Rogerio dePaula, Gerhard Fischer, Jonathan Oswald)

5.3 Audio & video communication in CSCL

• Lyceum: Internet voice groupware for distance learning (Simon Buckingham Shum, Samuel Marshall, John Brier, Tony Evans)
• Solving the case together:The challenge of net-based interdisciplinary collaboration (Fabian Hermann, Nikol Rumel, Hans Spada)
• Technological mediation for supporting synchronous collaboration in science and statistics (Richard Joiner, Einleen Scanlon, Tim O'Shea, Randall B. Smith)

5.4 Pedagogy track: The role of tutors in CSCL

• Approaches for analysing tutor's role in a networked inquiry discourse (M. Lakkala, H. Muukkonen, L. Ilomäki, J. Lallimo, M. Niemivirta, K. Hakkarainen)
• Progressive inquiry in CSILE environment: teacher guidance and students engagement (M. Rahikainen, J. Lallimo, K. Hakkarainen)

Session 6 (4 hours, starting at the same time as session 5)

External representations (Fisher& Mandl)

• Representations for model construction in collaborative inquiry environments (Simone Löhner, Wouter van Joolingen)
• Learning by constructing collaborative representations: An empirical comparison of three alternatives (Daniel Suthers, Christopher Hundhausen)
• Diagram-mediated collaborative learning: Diagrams as tools to provoke and support elaboration and argumentation (Carla van Boxtel, Arja Veerman)
• Facilitating the construction of shared knowledge with graphical representation tools in face-to-face and computer-mediated scenarios (Frank Fischer, Heinz Mandl)
• Munics: Modeling the flow of information in organizations (Jürgen Koch, Johann Schlichter, Pamela Tröndle)
• Seven year olds collaborating to construct a map using G.P.S. and space representation software (C. Kynigos, N. Giannoutsou)
• Architecture of a cooperative discussion environment based on visual languages (Katrin Gaßner)

Research Network Report

• Tools for collaborative learning: Design aspects and evaluation questions (Charles Kerns, Frans Ronteltap, Reinhold Steinbeck, George Toy, Gaby Lutgens)

Research Network Report

• Euroland: A virtual community (B. Ligorio, D. Cesareni, A. Talamo, C. Zucchermaglio, B. Lauret, J. Trimpe, H. Vandermeijden)

Saturday 24 March 2001

Start of the conference programme: 09.00 hrs

Keynote address by Prof. Dr Ulrich Hoppe: "About the relation between C and C in CSCL"

Session 7 (2 hours)

7.1. Analysis track: Frameworks for analysing collaborative interactions

• Group-based learning: Dynamic interaction in groups (J. Strijbos, R. Martens)
• Sharing and making perspectives in web-based conferencing (Päivi Häkkinen, Sanna Järvelä, Arja Byman)
• Interlocution scenarios for problem solving in an educational mud environment (Beatrice Ligorio, Giuseppe Mininni, David Traum)
• Collaboration and problem solving in distributed collaborative learning (Hans Christian Arnseth, Sten Ludvigsen, Barbara Wasson, Anders Mørch)

7.2 Evaluation track: Evaluation of CSCL experiences

• The nature of collaboration in computer supported designing (Henna Lahti, Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Kai Hakkarainen)
• CSCL in secondary school literature class - Focus on students' strategic actions (Hanna Salovaara, Sanna Järvelä)
• Motivation and participation in inquiry learning within a networked learning environment (A. Tapola, K. Hakkarainen, J. Syri, L. Lipponen, T. Palonen, M. Niemivirta)
• Learning effectiveness of concept mapping in a computer supported collaborative problem solving design (Neli Stoyanova, Piet Kommers)

7.3 Technology track: New interfaces for social interaction

• The effect of multiple input devices on collaboration and gender issues (Camilla Abnett, Danaë Stanton, Helen Neale, Claire O'Malley)
• The writing's on the wall: Large, remotely controlled displays (Mark Ashdown, Peter Robinson)
• Communication norms challenged in a joint project between two classrooms (Chronis Kynigos, Evangelina Dimaraki, Evie Trouki)

7.4. Pedagogy track: Activity theory regards on CSCL

• Case studies revisited: What can activity theory offer (Kim Issroff, Eileen Scanlon)
• Uses of ICT tools for CSCL: How do students make as their own the designed environment (Françoise Docq, Amaury Daele)
• Networked computers' incorporated role in collaborative learning (Annita Fjuk,Ole Smørdal)

Plus, in the same session: 

• Cognitive modeling of collaborative learning Modeling multi-user interactions (Cornelia Haber)

12.00 - 13.00 hrs: Final Panel in room 0.4 / 0.5

12.00 -13.00 hrs: Panel session: Ideas catchers, in room 0.4 / 0.5

During the conference, ten experienced scholars will pick up smart ideas, suprising results, new questions or research trends in each thematic track. They will report their findings in the final panel.

Analysis Track: Claire O'Malley (UK)& Michael Baker (France)
Evaluation Track: Barbara Wasson (Norway), Christian Depover (Belgium) & Chronis Kynigos (Greece)
Technology Track: Martin Muehlenbrock (Germany) & Felisa Verdjo (Spain)
Pedagogy track: Tim Koschmann (Canada), Rolf Ploetzner (Germany) & Gellof Kanselaar (The Netherlands)
Chair: Pierre Dillenbourg (Switzerland)

The conference closes at 13.00 hrs

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