1:00 - 1:15 pm - Welcome
1:15 - 2:00 pm - Introductions
2:00 - 3:00 pm - Expert panel + Q&A
3:00 - 3:30 pm - Break
3:30 - 4:00 pm - Facilitated small group discussions of workshop themes
4:00 - 4:30 pm - Share out and whole group discussion
4:30 - 5:00 pm - Wrap up
Are you interested in exploring the frontiers of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) research and contributing to the CSCL research community? We invite in-person and remote participants at all stages of their careers, including early career scholars, graduate students, and practitioners to join the workshop.
To join the workshop, please officially register on the conference website and complete the following survey: https://forms.gle/9gfcJQnwNDaq4LLo7
CSCL has been a fast-developing field at the intersection of collaboration, technology, and learning since its emergence in the 1990s. With changing research landscapes, technological advances (e.g., generative AI), the diversity of methods, and the emergence of related fields studying social interactions, CSCL is now at a crossroads with new challenges and opportunities. The workshop aims to provide a platform that supports participants in critically reflecting and examining the expanding boundaries of CSCL as they reflect on their own research trajectories. We hope to dialogue about the advances, challenges, and future of CSCL, reflect on our identity as CSCL researchers, and synergize our research efforts with advances in adjacent fields, thus reinforcing our strategic positioning and impacts and strengthening the CSCL community.
Specifically, the workshop goals are to:
examine the evolving development of CSCL as a maturing field as we expand the scope of CSCL research
examine new methodologies for CSCL researchers to analyse collaborative interactions
consider new possibilities of CSCL research with emerging related disciplines studying social interactions
analyse the intersection of CSCL and emerging technologies like AI, machine learning, and educational data analysis
support the growth of an interconnected CSCL community that thrives on both diversity and unity
reflect on the challenges and opportunities facing CSCL charting research directions
Before the conference: Participants will have the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the workshop theme using background materials provided by the organisers. They will prepare a brief statement (2-3 slides) on what they think are important questions in CSCL connecting to their own research. This will help create a common foundation for meaningful discussions during the workshop.
During the conference:
At the workshop, invited expert panellists (senior CSCL scholars) will give short talks on current and future development of CSCL. In the interactive sessions, participants will discuss different themes related to their interests (e.g., epistemology, new technologies and designs, generative AI, new methods and analysis, equity, theory-practice synergy), also examining the intersection of CSCL with emerging communities.
After the workshop: Participants are encouraged to attend other CSCL events, including the "Meet the ijCSCL editors" session, the CSCL community committee open meeting, and the reception, to continue networking.
After the conference: Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their learnings and continue the dialogue through online platforms, hopefully inspiring collaborative research and writing. We aim to strengthen the bonds and ties forged during the workshop and throughout the conference to strengthen the community through ongoing collaboration.
We envisage through joining the workshop, participants can gain insights into the evolving understanding and frontiers of CSCL; share progress in using new methods, technologies (e.g., generative AI) and synergies with related fields (e.g., analytics), engage in collective visioning of CSCL future development as well as gain new ideas to enrich their own CSCL research; develop an understanding of CSCL researcher identity, and use opportunities for networking and collaboration with other researchers in CSCL for community building.
Carol Chan, University of Hong Kong
Michelle Lui, University of Toronto
Jun Oshima, RECLS, Shizuoka University
Bodong Chen, University of Pennsylvania
Annelies Raes, KU Leuven University
Wenli Chen, Nanyang Technological University
Omid Noroozi, Wageningen University and Research