Overview
The workshop will focus on distributed, project-based collaboration in STEM learning, especially collaboration that crosses cultural, national, economic, generational, or linguistic boundaries. This translates to collaborations that have both synchronous and asynchronous modes and that produce some type of artifact, such as code, physical devices, video media, presentations, robots, or other artifact. In this context, a project—by way of artifact construction—mediates interaction between collaborators in learning or knowledge building. The potential for distributed collaboration, especially boundary crossing collaboration to function as a natural, abundant, and seamless aspect of next generation STEM learning, is intertwined with crucial and exciting areas currently unfolding in education research, innovation, and the learning sciences.
Other synthesis and design workshops around the USA that are funded under the same program by NSF are described on the CIRCL Center website organized by Digital Promise.
Participants
The workshop is structured for open attendance, with a core planning group of 10-15 experts from the U.S., Finland, Mexico, and Singapore. Areas of expertise represented at the workshop will include STEM-related distributed collaborative learning, data-rich information systems and systems integration, the future of learning and schooling, computational thinking, media pedagogy, and STEM teacher education.
Invited experts:
Core Planning Team
Questions/Contact: Danielle Espino (danielle.espino@pepperdine.edu), Seung B. Lee (seung.lee@pepperdine.edu)