Collaborative Learning

General Impressions:

CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning) could provide a good background to educational gaming- if that's the angle I want to take on it.

CSCL still seems like a vaguely defined term for me- seems to be very broad in scope and many theories are very general in nature... very theoretical.  How can I apply them?

Former notes on CSCW (my notes);  mental models (my notes); Participatory Design (my notes)

 

[D. Suthers] With emphasis on computer supported collaborative learning. I just want to start you with a few key papers. I added one on intentional learning communities and one survey I co-authored.

Roschelle, J. (1994). Designing for Cognitive Communication: Epistemic Fidelity or Mediating Collaborative Inquiry? http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=267610&;dl=ACM&coll=&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618

[D. Suthers] Seminal work in CSCL - ethnomethodological analysis showing role of representations as resources for making sense rather than as communication medium from expert to student.

 

Scardamalia, M., & Bereiter, C. (1994). Computer support for knowledge-building communities. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 3(3), 265-283. http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu:2056/login.aspx?direct=true&;db=aph&AN=7598757&site=ehost-live

[D. Suthers] The concepts behind the CSILE and Knowledge Forum systems, which is the most successful and influential CSCL system. It speaks to your desire to get away from book learning and have learning be about students' own agency in building their collective knowledge. I have hardcopy master for copying.

 

Stahl, G., Koschmann, T., & Suthers, D. (2006). CSCL: An Historical Perspective. In R. K.Sawyer (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences. Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press. CSCL: An Historical Perspective

[D. Suthers] A brief historical review and a position statement on the key issues in CSCL today.

 

Suthers, D. (2006).  Technology Affordances for Intersubjective Meaning-making: A Research Agenda for CSCL.  International Journal of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 1(2).

 

Webb, N., & Palincsar, A. S. (1996). Group Processes in the Classroom. In D. Berlmer & R. Calfee (Eds.), Handbook of Educational Psychology (pp. 841-873). New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan.

[D. Suthers] How group composition and task distribution affects learning