CSCL 2018 - Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL@ICALT2018)

The CSCL-AT-ICALT2018 track has a strong focus on the role of technology as catalyst for social interaction and collaborative knowledge construction. Contemporary technologies, such as mobile devices, cloud computing, web systems for adaptive and intelligent collaboration support, conversational agents, tangibles and tabletops and many others, provide exciting new opportunities for learners to communicate and collaborate in highly interactive learning environments. Enriched with innovative multimodal representations, such environments activate and challenge learners and stimulate knowledge building processes. Understanding these processes and their outcomes from various perspectives and at multiple levels isa major challenge for the CSCL researcher and educator.
The CSCL-AT-ICALT2018 track provides a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners who work in the broader area of technology-enhanced collaborative learning to present their latest work from a technological, empirical, theoretical, conceptual and design-based perspective. The track invites papers (full/short/poster submissions) that reflect state-of-the-art research advances spanning both the technological dimension (design and development of CSCL tools) and the pedagogical perspective (implementation of CSCL tools in authentic contexts, impact of CSCL approaches, empirical results and valuable reflections).
Major thematic areas of the track include:
1. CSCL theoretical, epistemological and methodological issues
2. Empirical results of CSCL usage (lab and field studies)
3. Mobile and non-standard (e.g. tabletops, furniture, wearables, peer gaze awareness) technologies for collaborative learning
4. Learning analytics and interaction analysis to model, represent, and support group learning dynamics
5. Adaptive/Intelligent systems to support tutoring/scaffolding/scripting in CSCL settings
6. Learning Design and formalization approaches to support the CSCL perspective
7. Support of (web-based) learning communities with CSCL tools
8. Use of social media in CSCL scenarios
9. Architectures and interoperability approaches for CSCL tools
10. Co-Construction of open educational resources and connectivist MOOCs
11. HCI Design issues of collaborative applications
12. Connecting digital and physical resources for collaborative learning
13. Internet of Things (IoT) in CSCL
14. Pedagogical agents to support the CSCL perspective
15. Computational thinking in CSCL settings
16. Collaboration, competition and conflict in educational games, gamification of CSCL scenarios
17. Teaching and Learning 21st century skills related to CSCL aspects
18. Peer assessment / Peer reviewing