insert-raw-html-here Members of the ijCSCL Board of Editors will present a day-long introduction to CSCL. This tutorial will be a dialog among oldtimers and newcomers to the CSCL community. The day will be divided into four sessions, focusing on CSCL vision, CSCL practices, CSCL technologies and CSCL theories. During each session, several members of the ijCSCL Board will discuss with each other and with the audience the broad topic for that period. Nation High School Reviews∞ This will be an opportunity to participate in a unique discourse about central issues and controversies in our field.
Date: Monday, June 8, 2009
Organizer: Gerry Stahl, Executive Editor of ijCSCL
Discussants: Various members of the ijCSCL Board of Editors. The people listed below have expressed interest in being discussants, but the session presentations will be open to all Board members.Earn high school diploma∞
Participants: Doctoral students, teachers, faculty, essay writers∞, custom essays∞ and researchers interested in learning about CSCL. Online High School∞
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Presentation method: Discussants will make brief statements and start discussion, dialog and debate among each other and with the audience.
Online discussion: This wiki will contain the opening statements of the discussants. The wiki will be open for discussion before, during and after the tutorial and the rest of the conference. This could initiate a permanent wiki on the central topics and issues in CSCL, open for the whole community of researchers and practitioners.GED Online Test∞

SessionOne: CSCL: Why bother? — Vision, benefits and potential

Time: 9:30-11:00
Topic: The 20-year history of CSCL, its accomplishments, its failutres and the challenges still facing it.
Discussants: Paul Kirschner, Naomi Miyake, Claire O'Malley, Roy Pea, Jeremy Roschelle

SessionTwo: Practices and practicalities — using CSCL in the classroom

Time: 11:30-13:00
Topic: How classrooms and other learning venues—whether distributed or co-located—can be organized to promote, structure, guide and support collaborative knowledge building.
Discussants: Tak-Wai Chan, Elizabeth Charles, Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Therese Laferriere

SessionThree: Technologies for supporting collaborative learning

Time: 15:00-16:30
Topic: A sampling of specific tools, essay∞ writing techniques and technologies from the CSCL toolkit, and the general approaches they are based on.
Discussants: Hugo Fuks, Ricki Goldman, Ulrich Hoppe, Chee-Kit Looi, Masanori Sugimoto, Barbara Wasson

SessionFour: Theoretical frameworks relevant to CSCL

Time: 17:00-18:30
Topic: Broad theories from other disciplines that inform analysis of CSCL interactions at the individual, small-group and social levels of description.Homeschooling∞
Discussants: Sanna Jarvela, Nancy Law, Peter Reimann, Rupert Wegerif

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This section of the ijCSCL wiki provides links to many resources for CSCL research

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