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Dear list-members, 

[sorry for cross-posting]

Please find enclosed a Call for Participation/Call for Papers for the Workshop "Fostering Learning Communities" that will take place at 31st of may, 2005, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm as part of the International CSCL Conference 2005 (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning), Taipei, Taiwan, May 30 - June 4, 2005.

To participate you should submit a position paper (3-4 pages) until 15th of April, 2005.

Find more information about the workshop and the conference:

http://www.cscl2005.org/Workshops/workshop3.htm 
and
http://www.cscl2005.org/

Best regards, Markus

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FOSTERING LEARNING COMMUNITIES
Theoretic Approaches, Empirical Studies, and Computer Support

Markus Rohde, David Williamson Shaffer, Volker Wulf

Workshop Theme 

Processes of collaborative learning are highly dynamic, socially complex, and emergent. With regard to community-oriented educational settings, the traditional role of teachers, tutors, and trainers change basically, new didactical approaches and pedagogical competences are necessary. The technological support of community learning needs an integrated socio-technical perspective, taking socio-cultural processes as well as technical infrastructures into account. The workshop aims at overcoming the traditional perspective on individual and group learning, focussing on community-based practice, shared histories of learning, community-building (and collective identity-building), and commonly-gained experiences.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, we will focus on the intersections and relationships between educational research and computer science as applied within CSCL scenarios. Topics of the workshop will include socio-cultural and related theories of community learning, case studies and empirical research results, and design requirements for the technological support of learning communities. 


Position Paper Topics

Relevant position paper topics include, but are not limited to:
- Contributions to theories of community-based learning and reflection on existing theories
- Didactical concepts and pedagogical approaches for community learning
- New challenges and roles of teachers, tutors, and trainers in community learning
- Communities of practice in educational settings
- Ethnography and case studies of diverse communities 
- Evaluation methods of community-oriented educational settings in school and university
- Support for community building and the negotiation of shared meaning
- Technical support and infrastructures for learning communities
- Support for mobile learning, e-learning, and blended learning for communities 

This workshop is a follow up to the Workshop “Community-Based Learning” held at the Sixth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2004) in June 2004 in Los Angeles, Cal. Results of this former workshop will be published in a Special Issue of ACM SIG Group Bulletin in Spring 2005. The workshop will pick-up some of the achieved results but shall be open for all interested participants.

Workshop Organization

Selection of Participants

The workshop is intended to bring together, for a whole day, a maximum of 20 participants. The participants will be selected on the basis of submitted position papers of 3-4 pages. The selection will be done so as to ensure the presence of diverse perspectives and to foster discussion. The position paper should present theoretical work, and empirical studies with regard to the relevance of the authors’ background to the workshop.

Deadline for these position papers: April, 15, 2005

Schedule for the Workshop

Morning: Short presentations of position papers by participants (about 10 minutes, depending upon number). 
Late morning and early afternoon: Most of the afternoon will be spent in smaller groups, each of them working on different aspects of learning communities. Then the groups will prepare draft explanations/materials for presentation to the larger group
Late Afternoon: Discussion and “wrap-up” based on the small groups’ results. Plans for further cooperation.

Plan for dissemination

The workshop organizers plan to write up the results of the workshop in a joint paper. According to the quality of the position paper submissions and the results of the workshop, we foresee the publication of an edited book or journal special issue on the topic of the workshop. We will develop public web pages dedicated to the workshop. 

Workshop Organizers

Markus Rohde has studied psychology and sociology at the University of Bonn and is one of the founders of the International Institute for Socio-Informatics (IISI). At the time being he is working as a research associate at Institute for Information Systems at the University of Siegen. Moreover he is editor of the political science journal on New Social Movements. Since 1991 his research focuses on the design of network systems, on virtual organizations, and on "organization and technology development". Since 1994 he is working as a consultant for medium-sized enterprises and for nonprofit-organizations. From 1998 until 2001 he has been CEO of AGENDA CONSULT GmbH. His main research interests are CSCW/CSCL, HCI, organization development, non-governmental organizations and (new) social movements.

David Williamson Shaffer is a former teacher, curriculum developer, teacher-trainer, and school technology specialist. He has taught grades 4-12 in the United States and abroad, including two years working with the Asian Development Bank and US Peace Corps in Nepal. Dr. Shaffer's M.S. and Ph.D. are from the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his work focused on the development and evaluation of technology-supported learning environments. After completing his doctoral studies, Dr. Shaffer taught and conducted research at the Technology and Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He developed curricula and online tools that help students understand the impact of technology on society, and created technology-based learning systems for new medical devices and procedures. Dr. Shaffer's research interests are in how computational media change the way people think and learn.

Volker Wulf has studied computer science and business administration at the RWTH Aachen and the University of Paris VI and got a PhD at the Computer Science Department of the University of Dortmund and a Habilitation at the University of Hamburg. Currently he is Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Siegen and heads a research group at Fraunhofer-FIT. His research interests include Computer Supported Cooperative Learning, Knowledge Management, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and Human Computer Interaction. He was Conference Co-Chair of ECSCW 2001, Communities & Technologies 2003 and the German conference D-CSCL 2000. 

Program Committee

- Amy Bruckman, Georgia Tech., USA 
- Hans Brügelmann, Univ. Siegen, Germany 
- Jim Gee, Univ of Wisconsin, USA 
- Jörg Haake, FernUni Hagen, Germany 
- Rich Halverson, Univ of Wisconsin, USA 
- Leslie Herrenkohl, Univ of Washington, USA 
- Marleen Huysman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
- Jim Kaput, U-Mass Dartmouth, USA 
- Yasmin Kafai, UCLA, USA 
- Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany 
- Markus Klann, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany 
- Michael Koch, Univ. Bremen, Germany 
- Tim Koshmann, Southern Illinois Univ., USA 
- Bernhard Nett, Fraunhofer FIT and IISI, Germany 
- Marcus Specht, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany 
- Kurt Squire, Univ of Wisconsin, USA 


Workshop Contact
Markus Rohde, Institute for Socio-Informatics (IISI), Dorotheenstr. 76, 53111 Bonn, Germany, and Institute for Information Systems, University of Siegen, Hölderlinstr. 3, 57068 Siegen, Fon: +49 228 691043, Telefax: +49 228 691053, [log in to unmask]


 
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dipl.-psych. markus rohde
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forschungsjournal neue soziale bewegungen * www.fjnsb.de
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international institute for socio-informatics (iisi) 
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institute for information systems * university of siegen 
hoelderlinstr. 3 * 57068 siegen

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