CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS
 
"CSCL at work"
http://www.csclatwork.org  
Submission Deadline: Sept, 19th, 2010


Workshop at ACM Conference GROUP’10;
7 November 2010, Sanibel Island, Florida
http://www.acm.org/conferences/group/conferences/group10/  
 
 
TOPIC "CSCL at work"
 We invite researchers as well as practitioners to submit a position paper
about computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) in the workplace.
With this workshop we want to bring people together from different
scientific communities, for example, CSCL and CSCW. Researchers will need to
consider how CSCL at work is designed for and studied. What are the
theoretical and methodological implications of the cases presented, and
where do they take this emerging research space? Practitioners will be
compelled to rethink how workplace training is conducted, and how more
collaborative learning strategies could contribute to higher performance,
faster transfer of technology from research and development to product and
changes to other significant output measures. In this context, learning is
no longer an activity that is separate from work. Learning at work is also
about more than acquiring new information to perform a task, but about
developing new knowledge to help a firm, an organization or a government
improve its services in socially measurable as well as economically
measurable ways.


Three goals motivate the workshop:
1) To identify and discuss examples of CSCL at work.
2) To identify theoretical and methodological commonalities and contrasts
across the represented disciplines relative to CSCL at work.
3) To further define the constituency of researchers who share an interest
in exploring collaborative learning in the workplace.


THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
 The aim of the workshop is to share examples of CSCL at work and
subsequently fill a significant gap in the literature. A number of existing
works provide empirical research on collaborative work practices [Crabtree
et al. 2006; Lave and Wenger, 1991], the sharing of information at work
[Brown and Duguid, 2000; Davenport, 2005], and the development of
communities of practice in workplace settings [Wenger, 1998]. Others examine
the munificent variation of information and communication technology use in
the work place, including studies of informal social networks, formal
information distribution and other socio-technical combinations found in
work settings [Hinds and Weisband, 2003]. Another significant thread of
prior work is focused on computer supported collaborative learning, much of
it investigating the application of computer support for learning in the
context of traditional educational institutions, like public schools,
private schools, colleges and tutoring organizations. Exciting new theories
of how knowledge is constructed by groups [Stahl, 2006], how teachers
contribute to collaborative learning and the application of socio-technical
scripts is emerging from workplace studies [Bødker and Christiansen, 2006;
Turner et al. 2008]. 
 

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
 To participate in the workshop, discussants will be asked for a position
paper of up to 4 pages in standard ACM format. We can offer an outstanding
book proposal with Springer on this topic, and an edited book is one
possible next step. Accepted workshop proposals could be published as
extended paper in the edited book. 
 

SUBMISSION DEADLINE
 September, 19th, 2010
 
 
SUBMISSION
 Please email your position paper to the workshop organizers (not more than
4 pages; ACM templates
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).
 
 
AGENDA & PROCESS
 The workshop will be a full day. It will open with a situating presentation
by the organizers and be followed by topically oriented small group breakout
sessions. Position papers will be selected for featured talks in the
afternoon. The workshop will conclude with a decision on next steps.
 
 
ORGANIZERS
- Sean P. Goggins, Drexel University, USA, [log in to unmask] (corresponding
co-organizer)
- Isa Jahnke, Dortmund University of Technology, Germany,
[log in to unmask]
- Volker Wulf, University of Siegen, Germany, [log in to unmask]
 

REFERENCES
-Ackerman, M., Pipek, V. and Wulf, V. 2003. Sharing Expertise - Beyond
Knowledge Management. MIT Press.
-Bødker, S. and Christiansen, E. 2006. Computer Support for Social Awareness
in Flexible Work. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. 15, 1-28.
-Brown, J. S. and Duguid, P. 2000. The Social Life of Information. Harvard
Business School Press;
-Crabtree, A., O'Neill, J., Tolmie, P., Colmbino, T., and Grasso, A. 2006.
The Practical Indispensability of Articulation Work to Immediate and Remote
Help Giving. CSCW 2006. 219-228.
-Davenport, T. H. 2005. Thinking for a Living. Harvard Business School Press
Boston. 
-Hinds, P. and Weisband, S. 2003. Knowledge Sharing and Shared Understanding
in Virtual Teams. Creating Conditions for Effective Virtual Teams.
-Huysman, M. and Wulf, V. 2004. Social Capital and Information Technology.
MIT Press.
-Lave, J. and Wenger, E. 1991. Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral
Participation. Cambridge University Press.
-Stahl, G. 2006 Group Cognition: Computer Support for Building Collaborative
Knowledge. MIT Press.
-Turner, W., Bowker, G. C., Gasser, L., and Zacklad, M. 2006. Information
Infrastructures for Distributed Collective Practices. Computer Supported
Cooperative Work. 15, 93-110.
-Wenger, E. 1998. Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity.
Cambridge University Press.