Future of the CSCL Community

Abstract

Learning take place under different affordances and constraints make up by people and a range of computational tools. The conference theme for the learning science conference this year - transformation of learning and empowering learners - are foundational for the CSCL community. To learn in collaboration with computer support can mean to develop new cognitive and epistemic orientations, social and emotional dispositions and deep engagement in participation in activities and communities. As a field within the learning sciences the CSCL community will transform itself as social, cultural, cognitive and technological changes occur. The CSCL community contributes to these developments in various ways, by offering new pedagogical and technological design, computational tools and deep analysis of how and what people learn. The unique combination of the new possibilities that technologies can offer and the empirical analysis of what people choose to do together create a kaleidoscope for new scientific insights into people’s learning. In this symposium we will emphasize the new challenges for the CSCL community for the next the years.