Principles and grand challenges for the future: a prospectus for the computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) community

  • Authors:
  • Eric R. Hamilton

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, Institute for Information Technology Applications, US Air Force Academy, CO

  • Venue:
  • CSCL'07 Proceedings of the 8th iternational conference on Computer supported collaborative learning
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Six principles of future learning environments have emerged from the CSCL research community. These include: greater "sightlines" into learner, teacher and peer cognition; an increasingly salient role for modeling; increased connectivity between people, concurrent with a greater sense of individualization or "one-to-oneness"; fluid contextual mobility in learning, such as between virtual and real contexts or interoperability of individual, social and machine knowledge forms; and higher interactional bandwidth, or capacity of the environment to mediate meaningful content. Four grand challenges - large, worthy, and difficult tasks should occupy the attention of the CSCL community. Each is a frontier: a more visible and vibrant role for the tools and metaphors of the CSCL community in a troubled era of globalization; means for extending collaboration beyond cognitive models to a broader range of human experience; vitality in learning and collaboration through the life cycle; and unlocking group "flow" in the science of collaboration.