Title: "CSCL in the Next 10 Years"

Day: Saturday, June 4, 2005

Time: 11:00-12:00

Location: Auditorium

Chair: Daniel Suthers

Panelists: Pierre Dillenbourg, Friedrich Hesse, Timothy Koschmann, Roy Pea, Nancy Law, Tak-Wai Chan

Abstract:
the next 10 years, and begin an ongoing community-wide discussion of that agenda. The panel is scheduled to follow plenary presentations of agenda-setting papers, and will itself be followed by a post-conference workshop ("Defining the Agenda," chaired by Gerry Stahl) in which participants will attempt to prioritize or integrate our multiple proposals into a common agenda. Therefore this panel is designed to bring before us a multitude of proposals and engage us in debates about them that will energize the following workshop.

The panelists are established CSCL researchers and practitioners who have been recruited to serve as “idea catchers” during the conference, watching for presentations or events that exemplify promising directions for future work in CSCL. In the panel itself, the panelists will be asked to summarize (in 4 minutes or less) their proposals for the next 10 years of CSCL, using one or more conference presentations or events as illustrations. For example, these proposals might claim that certain types of research questions should be prioritized, advocate for a methodological approach and its motivations, and/or suggest that the study of a particular application are will be fruitful. During the remainder of the panel, conference participants will be given the opportunity to challenge panelists, for example with

• arguments for the priority of one panelist's proposal over another's,

• arguments for the combination of two or more proposals into an integrated program of research,

• arguments for alternative proposals that have not yet been expressed.

Panelists will respond to these arguments. A record of the debate will be made using collaborative technology.

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