Title: "The Impact of International Collaborative Initiatives on CSCL Research"

Day: Thursday, June 2, 2005

Time: 13:30-15:00

Location: Auditorium

Chair: Tak-Wai Chan

Panelists: Nicolas Balacheff, John Cherniavsky, Ulrich Hoppe, and Jeremy Roschelle

Abstract:
CSCL is a prominent theme within several recent, large Networks of Excellence and Research Centers:

•  Kaleidoscope (sponsored by the European Union) involves 850 researchers and the largest special interest group focuses on CSCL (http://www.noe-kaleidoscope.org/). Kaleidoscope intends to develop instruments to stimulate and support collaborative research. Research is international by nature, and collaborative by necessity, it should be better supported by technology.

• The LIFE Center (sponsored by the US National Science Foundation)'s purpose is to understand and advance human learning through a simultaneous focus on implicit, informal, and formal learning (http://life-slc.org/). Its first “signature project” focuses on social interactivity, in all its meanings.

• An informal international network called G1:1 (see www.G1on1.org) is comprised of CSCL researchers interested in learning environments in which every learner is equipped with at least one computing device with wireless communication capability.
  
  This panel will discuss the growing need for international cooperation in CSCL research, the tools, testbeds, demonstration sites, and best practices that enable successful research collaborations, and how the results of such collaborations may shape the direction of CSCL research in the next ten years.

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