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Join us on 17th March 2021 for the tenth session from the CSCL in Times of Crisis webinar series. We hope to see you there to explore Positioning the university lecture in a time of crisis with Charles Crook, University of Nottingham. Positioning the university lecture in a time of crisis A pandemic can seriously disturb the established social fabric of education. How do university lectures fit within such a social fabric and can they support collaborative relationships? This presentation will suggest ways to protect (or even extend) the social dimension of lecturing during times of social distancing. I address the lecture through a design-based research trajectory that draws on a research literature, on the voices of staff and students, on logs of learning resource access, and on direct observation of student collaboration around captured lectures. Current strategies for crisis re-mediation of the lecture lean heavily on distributing video ‘captures’. The strengths and limitations of this approach will be discussed before moving...

Join us on 10th March 2021 for the ninth session from the CSCL in Times of Crisis webinar series. We hope to see you there to explore the Collective Regulation & Enhanced Analysis Thinking Environment (CREATE) with Tugce Aldemir, Marcela Borge, and Xia Yu, The Pennsylvania State University Collective Regulation & Enhanced Analysis Thinking Environment (CREATE) Our increasingly diverse society requires developing cultural competencies in a way that one could form relationships across differences. Developing these skills is a long-term endeavor that needs repetitive practices of collaborative sense-making around topics such as race, gender with diverse identity groups. However, learners have rarely been taught how to engage in this form of collaborative sense-making, and with the challenges COVID brings, the existing communication problems could be amplified across a larger scale, leading to more polarization in society. Thus, we introduce The Collective Regulation & Enhanced Analysis Thinking Environment (CREATE), an online text-based platform, and the pedagogical models. It was initially designed to develop...

Join us on 3rd March 2021 for the eighth session from the CSCL in Times of Crisis webinar series. We hope to see you there to explore Using Multimodal Data to Prepare the Next Generation of Data Scientists with Bertrand Schneider and Javaria Hassan, Harvard University. Using Multimodal Data to Prepare the Next Generation of Data Scientists Data literacy is becoming a central skill for the next generation of STEM students. However, most data science courses focus on pre-collected datasets and neglect challenges associated with data collection and data cleaning. This project is about teaching data science skills through real-world, ecological, multimodal datasets. In this presentation, I will describe two technological contributions: (1) a website that allows learners to collect rich multimodal datasets, from any webcam or video recording, by using machine learning algorithms that track eye movements, body postures, heart rate and emotions; (2) a learning portal, which provides instructional videos to teach concepts related to multimodal learning analytics. This portal...

Join us on 24th February 2021 for the seventh session from the CSCL in Times of Crisis webinar series. We hope to see you there to explore Fostering Humanistic Knowledge Building Communities using Online Collaborative Tools, with Yotam Hod, Michal Dvir, Shiri Kashi, Liat Rahmian; University of Haifa. Fostering Humanistic Knowledge Building Communities using Online Collaborative Tools: A New Frontier after a Decade of Research The learning goals of this innovation are to foster online humanistic knowledge building communities (HKBCs) where communities’ ideas as well as the participants’ identities as learners and knowledge builders are jointly co-advanced. Target groups include online courses in higher educational settings designed for collaboration in technology-enhanced KBCs. While it is relevant to all disciplines and contexts, we have implemented this at the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. levels following the same design principles in teacher education, educational technologies, statistics education, and introduction to Ph.D. studies. Although our current implementations are fully online due to COVID, we have over...

Join us on 17th January 2021 for the sixth session from the CSCL in Times of Crisis webinar series. We hope to see you there to explore Promoting Engineering Students intercultural Communication and Diversity Understanding, with Anuli Ndubuisi, Jim Slotta, Elham Marzi, OISE, University of Toronto. Promoting Engineering Students’ Intercultural Communication and Diversity Understanding Amidst the global disruption of international education programs, educators are creatively adapting their education abroad programs aimed at building global citizens. We will present the use of the Knowledge Community and Inquiry (KCI) model to support students’ development of intercultural communication competencies and global perspectives within the context of a global virtual team learning environment where they work in culturally diverse project teams. This approach focuses on supporting students that seek alternative solutions to the traditional study abroad programs, or where access to travel-related international experiences have been limited by social distancing constraints. We will share how the International Virtual Engineering Student Teams (InVEST) initiative helps students to...

Join us on 3rd January 2021 for the fourth session from the CSCL in Times of Crisis webinar series. We hope to see you there to explore Learning Together Online through Peer Review, presented by Armin Weinberger. Learning together online through Peer Review Learning through peer review has been applied across all age groups, from primary education to adult education. There has been a focus on higher education with a pronounced interest to attain competencies in arguing within a domain of study and deal with complex problems. Depending on grade level, students would need differently specified additional scaffolding, but have always been found to be more productive learning together with a peer review structure than without. You can stream the webinar and participate in the subsequent Q & A session here on Wednesday, February 3rd 2021, 3:00 – 4:00 pm (GMT, London, UK): https://youtu.be/xXKZ2uYdYiI The webinar will be presented by Armin Weinberger, Saarland University. CSCL in Times of Crisis Webinar Series The Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL)...