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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
CSCL 2002
COMPUTER SUPPORT FOR COLLABORATIVE LEARNING:
FOUNDATIONS FOR A CSCL COMMUNITY
http://www.cscl2002.org
January 7-11, 2002
Omni Resort Hotel
Boulder, Colorado, USA
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CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
CSCL (Computer Support for Collaborative Learning) 2002 is an international
conference to be held near Boulder, Colorado, USA, on January 7-11, 2002.
CSCL 2002 will explore opportunities for computer and Internet technology
to support collaborative forms of learning and teaching. The theme this
year focuses on strengthening the foundations for the field of CSCL:
theory, technology, evaluation and community building.
The CSCL conference is a major event that brings together people involved
in all aspects of the field of CSCL, including research, education,
training and technology. The conference will be highly interactive, with
opportunities for people with different interests, backgrounds and
specialties to learn, share and collaborate. There will be featured
presentations, research papers with discussion, poster sessions, tutorials
introducing special topics, workshops exploring specialties, demos of
commercial and experimental technologies, a doctoral consortium and other
interactive events.
For detailed and up-to-date information please visit the conference website
(recommendation: bookmark the URL for future reference) at:
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www.cscl2002.org
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For specific questions about the conference that are not answered at the
conference website, please contact: Shana Lourie at: [log in to unmask]
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
- June 1, 2001 Submissions due
- August 15, 2001 Authors of submissions notified
- Sept. 15, 2001 Revised versions of submissions due
- October 15, 2001 Student Volunteer applications due
- November 1, 2001 Deadline for early registration
- January 7-11, 2002 CSCL 2002 conference
SUBMISSIONS & PRESENTATION FORMATS
Submissions on all topics within the field of CSCL are welcome. Special
consideration will be given to submissions that address foundational issues
of the field. All submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed. They must
be submitted electronically, properly formatted and fit on 10 pages or
less. Submissions that are accepted by the Program Committee will be
published in the official conference proceedings and may be presented at
the conference.
A variety of presentation formats will be available for accepted
submissions. Traditional formal presentations (e.g., a talk with slides)
will be grouped with related submissions and a discussant will lead
interaction with the audience. There will also be poster sessions, where
presenters can display their work and discuss it informally with viewers.
Roundtables will allow a group of people who have read a paper to discuss
it intensively with the author. In addition, submitters may propose
tutorials, panels, workshops, demos, interactive events, asynchronous
interactions or other innovative formats. Students may apply for the
doctoral consortium, where they can discuss their Ph.D. dissertation topics
with other students and faculty.
Special consideration will be given to high quality submissions that
contribute to the foundations of CSCL including publication in a planned
edited book, a journal special edition and featured presentations at the
conference. Foundational submissions can, for instance, provide overviews
of the field, critical comparisons of relevant theories, methodological
proposals or visions of collaborative learning. The best of these may be
presented as plenary talks. Submissions with a student first author are
eligible for a best student paper cash prize.
Special procedures apply to submissions intended for tutorials, workshops,
demos, interactive events and the doctoral consortium.
Detailed instructions will soon be provided at the conference website:
http://www.cscl2002.org/
PAPERS FOR FORMAL PRESENTATION, ROUNDTABLE OR POSTER
Submissions for formal talks, roundtable and poster are limited to 10
pages. All submissions must be properly formatted and submitted
electronically through the conference website by June 1, 2001. They must be
written in English and carefully edited.
WORKSHOPS
Please see our website and discuss submission ideas with one of the
Co-Chairs: Tamara Sumner, [log in to unmask], or Paul Mulholland,
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Workshops provide a valuable opportunity for researchers and practitioners
to discuss and share ideas around innovative, timely, or controversial
topics of relevance to the CSCL community. Proposals should discuss the
purpose and organization of the workshop, emphasizing how the workshop will
facilitate discussion and engagement amongst the participants. Initial
workshop proposals should not exceed 3 pages.
TUTORIALS
Please see our website and discuss submission ideas with the Chair: Anders
Morch, [log in to unmask]
Tutorials offer a limited number of participants the opportunity to learn
about specific concepts, methods and techniques from any of the focal areas
of theory, technology, evaluation and community building. We particularly
invite tutorials that experiment with new forms of interaction between
learners and teachers, such as employing innovative technologies, actively
engaging the learners in design or evaluation, exploring distributed
settings within the format of a conference, and pedagogical principles and
theories that will help to strengthen CSCL community building.
INTERACTIVE EVENTS
Please see our website and discuss submission ideas with the Chair: Daniel
Suthers, [log in to unmask]
Interactive events are intended to engage conference participants in
exploring current issues of CSCL design, experiencing new technologies, and
sharing methods for research and practice. Proposals are invited on any of
the focal areas of theory, technology, evaluation and community building.
Possible formats are limited only by proposers' imaginations, but should
include a significant measure of participation by attendees.
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
Please see our website and discuss submission ideas with the Co-Chairs:
Michael Eisenberg, [log in to unmask], or Amy Bruckman, [log in to unmask]
The Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for Ph.D. students who have
successfully completed their dissertation proposal in fields related to
CSCL to share their work-in-progress with peers and faculty selected from
across the field.
LOCATION
The conference will be held at the new Omni Conference Center outside of
Boulder, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. There will be opportunities
for informal discussions with colleagues from around the world, as well as
hiking on nearby trails, shopping in the new Flatirons Crossing Mall, and
dining and entertainment in Boulder and Denver. For skiers, snowboarders,
and snowshoers, CSCL 2002 promises to be a great winter location!
Arrangements can be made for ski passes and transportation to local resorts
before and after the conference. For those who can't do without the
Internet, you can stay connected through the Ethernet drops in each Omni
guest room.
MORE ABOUT CSCL
CSCL has been developing for several years and has entered a vibrant period
of activity internationally. The acceptance of the Web and the recognition
of the importance of distance education in various countries have made
advances in CSCL particularly urgent. Broad concerns about the limitations
of traditional educational approaches in an increasingly global and
technological world underscore the need to realize the potentials of
collaborative learning and computer support.
CSCL holds a number of promises:
- To develop a theoretical understanding of learning as a collaborative
process that is socially and culturally situated.
- To develop technologies that mediate collaboration, that augment
cognitive skill development, and that make knowledge and knowledge-building
communities more broadly accessible.
- To develop ways of observing and assessing collaborative learning and
knowledge building.
- To develop a community of researchers and practitioners working together
to realize the promises of CSCL.
Important steps have been taken in each of these areas in the past several
years, as reported at previous CSCL conferences. A variety of CSCL systems
have been developed and numerous studies have been conducted of their use
in classrooms. However, further progress is needed to provide a solid
foundation for CSCL as a robust, effective research field. We need to start
to coalesce and strengthen a set of coherent foundations -- without
imposing a narrow approach or stifling the healthy interchange of
conflicting interdisciplinary perspectives. The CSCL 2002 conference in
Boulder will be a catalyst for this. As we propose, explore and evaluate
new tools, studies and techniques, we will consider how these specifics
contribute to the foundations of an educationally important research field.
SPONSORS
CSCL 2002 is supported by the University of Colorado at Boulder:
- The Center for LifeLong Learning and Design (L3D)
- The Department of Computer Science
- The Institute of Cognitive Science
- The Coleman Institute, and by
- Microsoft Research
CSCL STEERING COMMITTEE
Conference Chair
- Gerhard Fischer
Program Chair
- Gerry Stahl
Consultant
- Tim Koschmann
General Manager
- Donna Caccamise
International Relations Co-Chairs
- Masanori Sugimoto(Asia)
- Som Naidu (Australia/New Zealand)
- Kai Hakkarainen (Europe)
Workshops Co-Chairs
- Tammy Sumner
- Paul Mulholland
Tutorials Chair
- Anders Morch
Panels & Interactive Events Chair
- Dan Suthers
Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
- Mike Eisenberg
- Amy Bruckman
Student Community Co-Chairs
- Leysia Palen
- Rogerio de Paula
- Gabe Johnson
Student Paper Competition Chair
- Mark Dubin
Teacher Participation Chair
- Mary Lamon
Community Memory Co-Chairs
- Bruce Henderson
- Curtis LeBaron
- Reed Stevens
Publicity Co-Chairs
- Chris diGiano
- Marilyn Salzman
Industry Relations Chair
- Lorilee Sadler
Fund Raising Co-Chairs
- Hal Eden
- Shana Lourie
Shana Lourie
Partnership Specialist
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(303) 492-3624
Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado at Boulder
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