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Computer Supported Collaborative Learning 2005
A successful conference!
May 30-June 4th, Taipei
The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) conference is an internationally-recognized forum for the exchange of research findings related to learning in the context of collaborative activity and the exploration of how such learning might be augmented through technology. CSCL 2005 was co-chaired by LILT director Dan Suthers along with Timothy Koschmann, and hosted by Tak-Wai Chan. Organizing this conference was a tremendous amount of work and Dan is relieved to be able to focus fully on his research again, but it was well worth it.
LILT had a strong presence in this conference. Dan Suthers presented a paper
on the agenda for CSCL in the next 10 years. Nathan Dwyer (pictured right in a rare tie appearance) presented his study
of how technology affordances are appropriated for collaboration (co-authored with Dan Suthers). Joyce Yukawa presented a short
paper on her dissertation work (see the previous news story). Ravikiran Vatrapu and Nathan Dwyer both participated in the highly successful Student Participation program. 
Also, two of our Hawaii Networked Learning Communities teachers, Maggie Prevenas and Michelle Barber, participated in the Teacher Participation program and gave a presentation in a teacher panel. You can find their reports on the conference in this HNLC news story.
This year was the 10th anniversary of the first CSCL Conference held at Indiana University in 1995. Subsequent meetings have been held at the University of Toronto, Stanford, University of Maastricht, University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Bergen. This year's conference was organized to reflect both on where we have been and where we need to go as a growing field of inquiry, defining the direction of the field for the next 10 years.
The conference web page is at http://www.cscl2005.org/.
