Workshop
workshop 1: Computer-supported collaboration scripts, January 22-23, 2007
The European Research Team CoSSICLE is pleased to offer a workshop in collaboration with the Virtual Doctoral School in Kaleidoscope. This workshop is part of the "CSCL Alpine Rendez-Vous" (craftsrv1.epfl.ch/events/alpine).
Context: Computer-supported collaboration scripts aim at facilitating social and cognitive processes of collaborative learning by shaping the way learners interact with each other. Unfortunately, most existing scripts today are “hardwired“ into a learning environment, limiting their reusability and making it difficult to research the specific effects of scripts on learning processes and outcomes. In order to resolve these issues, researchers aim to formalize scripts with the use of graphical modelling techniques and standardized modelling languages.
Scope: The purpose of the workshop is to bring together senior and junior researchers as well as practitioners from different disciplinary backgrounds with a common interest in computer-supported collaboration scripts in order to explore and discuss the state-of-the-art and future of scripted learning environments.
Format: The workshop is divided into three 4h sessions with invited presentations. The first session will focus on the educational and psychological aspects of computer-supported collaboration scripts that we need to take into account and preserve in the formalization process. In the second session, issues in modelling and formalizing scripts will be explored. We will present a framework for the specification of scripts as well as a formal approach to graphically modelling scripts with some time reserved for hands-on experience with a graphical modelling tool. The third session will focus on the near future of formalized scripts. Besides theoretical questions on what will be achieved by formalizing scripts, practical questions will be dealt with that address issues of implementing formalized scripts in virtual learning environments. For doctoral students, some preparatory online activities will be offered as well as a private face-to-face session with invited speakers.
Participants: Senior researchers, doctoral students and expert practitioners. The number of participants will be limited to a maximum of 35.
Location: The workshop is located in Vill ars (www.villars.ch), Switze rland , a ski resort located 90 km from Geneva airport. It can easily be reached by train. The closest main city, Lausanne, has excellent train connections with Paris, Lyon, Torino or Germany. The Geneva airport (www.gva.ch) has many worldwide connections including several low-cost companies operating over Europe.
Costs: The cost for participation will be roughly 300 Euros (500 CHF), including full board and 2 hotel nights. Doctoral students may apply for full funding of these costs. We have also reserved a small budget to partially compensate for their travel costs.
Deadline for applications: September 15 th, 2006.
Organizers: Frank Fischer, Armin Weinberger & Lars Kobbe (KMRC, Germany); Pierre Dillenbourg (EPFL, Switzerland); Päivi Häkkinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland); Andreas Harrer (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) .
Workshop coordinator: Lars Kobbe (l.kobbe@iwm-kmrc.de). Doctoral students are asked to submit a published paper or a half-page description that shows how their work is related to the field of collaboration scripts in order to apply for funded participation (for partial travel costs compensation, please include a travel costs estimate).
Local Coordinator: Florence Colomb (Florence.Colomb@epfl.ch) or +41 21 693 22 75.
Sponsors: Kaleidoscope (www.noe-kaleidoscope.org) and the Virtual Doctoral School (vds.noe-kaleidoscope.org).
Please click here to have the Call for Participation of this workshop.
Please click here to have the complete programme of the Alpine RDV.
