ICCE Conference on Computer-supported Collaborative Learning
(CSCL) and Learning Sciences
November 28, 2011 (Monday) to December 2, 2011 (Friday)
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Organized by Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education https://apsce.net
Hosted by National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand https://www.nectec.or.th
In response to emerging research diversity, ICCE2011 will be a meta-conference, a conference of collocated theme-based conferences. This is the Call for Papers for the theme-based conference, C2: ICCE Conference on CSCL and Learning Sciences.
Since the emergence of the field on Learning Sciences some 15 to 20 years ago, many researchers have developed a passion for understanding how learning occurs. Visions and goals that drive this interdisciplinary field include developing theories of learning, designing technology-supported environments and examining learning in context for understanding, transforming and creating opportunities towards deep, enriched and innovative learning. Researchers in the Learning Sciences go beyond learning outcomes; they are concerned with deep analyses of learning and collaborative processes, how technology and designs are informed with learning theories, and deriving design principles and successful conditions through which change and innovation occur. A strong tradition of research in the Learning Sciences is Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), a fast-developing field centrally concerned with how learning takes place through computer-mediated collective activity, and how computers and designed artifacts may support and promote collaboration.
In C2, we wanted to highlight research efforts in Learning Sciences and CSCL that include and also go beyond those that are developed in North America and Europe. There are many researchers and academics active in this part of the world working on similar research issues and challenges in the field. With the more centralized education system in Asia, various countries in Asia have articulated educational policies and the need to reform pedagogy and learning design towards more constructivist and social-constructivist orientations. These educational changes in the region are advantageous for the field and they provide good possibilities of appropriating the research outcomes of CSCL and Learning Sciences to impact practice, and to inform and chart new research directions. Researchers from different parts of the Asia-Pacific region also pursue their research from different theoretical orientations and contexts. Such diversity and synergy may spark progress in bringing together these different perspectives to CSCL and Learning Sciences. We invite you to participate in this dialogue.
The scope of CSCL and Learning Sciences will cover but not limited to the following:
how people learn and analyses of how learning takes place
design of technology and learning environments to promote learning, inquiry and collaboration
analyses of group, collaborative and collective processes; designing tools for analyzing collaborative process;
methodological advances and issues
how collective activity and knowledge building is mediated and supported by technology
communities, design principles, implementation of innovation
informal, workplace, organization and community-based learning
role of culture in learning, collaboration and technology
psychological, social and technological impacts of CSCL and Learning Sciences on individual, group and society
theoretical and methodological issues for research in CSCL and Learning Sciences
Program Co-chairs
Friedrich HESSE, Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany (Executive PC-Chair)
Manu KAPUR, National Institute of Education, Singapore
PC members
Carol CHAN, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Ulrike CRESS, Knowlege Media Reserch Centre, Germany
Pierre DILLENBOURG, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Sarah Davis, National Institute of Education, Singapore
Joerg Haake, FernUniversitaet of Hagen, Germany
Christopher Hoadley, NYU Steinhardt, USA
Huang-Yao Hong, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Sanna Järvelä, University of Oulu, Finland
Paul Kirschner, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands
Chee-Kit Looi, National Institute of Education, Singapore
Daniel D. Suthers, University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA
Jan Van Aalst, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chen Wenli, National Institute of Education, Singapore
Chee Yam San, National Institute of Education, Singapore
Additional Reviewers
Jürgen Buder, Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany
Joachim Kimmerle, Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany
Devin Ray, Knowlege Media Reserch Centre, Germany
Katrin Wodzicki, University of Lausanne, Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany
Daniel Wessel, Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany
