CSCL 2013 - International Conference on Computer-supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) and Learning Sciences

Since the emergence of the field on Learning Sciences, 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 learning 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 for optimal learning. A strong tradition of research in the Learning Sciences is Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), a fast-developing area centrally concerned with how learning takes place through computer-mediated interactions, and how computers and designed space may support and promote collaboration.
In C2, we want 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 systems in Asia, various countries 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 different perspectives to CSCL and Learning Sciences. We invite you to participate in this dialogue at this year’s ICCE in Bali, Indonesia.
The scope of the ICCE Conference on CSCL and Learning Sciences will cover but not be limited to the following:
how people learn and analyses of how learning takes place in context
design of technology and learning environments to promote and transform learning, inquiry and collaboration
analyses of group, collaborative and collective processes
designing tools for analyzing and assessing collaborative learning and knowledge building
methodological advances and issues on how collective activity and knowledge building is mediated, supported and transformed by technology
psychological, social and technological impacts of CSCL and Learning Sciences on individual, group, organization and society
theoretical and methodological issues for research in CSCL and Learning Sciences
teacher initiative and change to support deep and innovative learning
theories and pedagogical approaches to CSCL
informal, workplace, organization and community-based learning
role of culture in learning, collaboration and technology
collaborative inquiry process, conceptual change, scaffolding, transfer, complex system, virtual communities, design principles, implementation of innovation in CSCL and Learning Sciences
We welcome contributions that report on accomplished research as well as work in progress.