Time:	TTh 3:00-4:30
Location:	CCB 101
Instructor:	Amy Bruckman
Office:	CoC 255
Tel:	894-9222
Email:	asb@cc.gatech.edu
	(Email is best way to reach me.)
Office Hours:	Find me after class or email for an appointment
Teaching Assistant:	TBD
TA Email:

Texts:

Required:

• Koschmann, Timothy (1996). "CSCL: Theory and Practice of an Emerging Paradigm." Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. ("TK")
• Lave, Jean and Etienne Wenger (1991). "Situated Learing: Legitimate Peripheral Participation." New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Wertsch, James V (1985). "Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind." Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ("Wertsch")
  (You can buy it at Barnes and Noble. It wasn't ordered at the bookstore.)
• Articles online
• Handouts

• Interviewing as Qualitative Research by Irving Seidman. New York: Teacher's College Press, 1991.

• Class CoWeb
• Newsgroup: git.cc.class.cs7467 (to be set up)
• Class mailing list (name announced in class)

Prerequisite

Undergraduates must have taken "CS 4660: Educational Technology" (enforced prerequisite).

For graduate students, some background in the area is suggested but not required. The best preparation is "CS 6460: Educational Technology: Conceptual Foundations." Also helpful is "CS 6470: Design of Online Communities."

Honor Code

Grading

1. Short paper (~5 pages): Apply theories of collaboration to a real-world learning situation (15%)
2. Midterm paper (~20 pages): Literature review of research on an existing CSCL system or issue (35%)
3. Preliminary design for final paper (5%)
4. Final paper (~20 pages): Design of a CSCL system (30%)
5. Presentation of final paper (5%)
6. Class participation (10%)

Course Outline

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• 1/7: Course Overview

  
  

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• 1/9: Overview of CSCL

  Reading:

  • "Paradigm Shifts and Instructional Technology: An Introduction," by Timothy Koschmann (TK ch. 1)
  • The Day After Net Day by Amy Bruckman

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• 1/14: Sample CSCL System: CSILE

  Reading:

  • "Computer Support for Knowledge-Building Communities" by Marlene Scardamalia and Carl Bereiter (TK ch. 10)
  • The new commercial version of CSILE is called Knowledge Forum. Please try the Knowledge Forum Demo. Note that the password for a free test account is written in the explanatory text on the page you launch the demo from.
  • "Effects with and of CSCL: Tracking learning in a new paradigm," by Janet Kolodner and Mark Guzdial. (TK ch. 12)

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• 1/16: Allan Fisher talk (CoC DLS)

  Please attend the College of Computing DLS at this time in room 117 student services building (flag building). We'll talk about the lecture in class next class.
  

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• 1/21: Vygotsky and the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)

  Reading:

  • "The Social Origins of Higher Mental Functions," by James Wertsch (Wertsch ch. 3)
  
  Note that the beginning of this chapter is challenging--particularly because it refers to lots of theorists you may not have heard of. Stick with it--it gets easier after a few pages.

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• 1/23: Learning from Others: the Mechanism

  Reading:

  • "Semiotic Mechanisms in Vygotsky's Genetic Law of Cultural Development," by James Wertsch (Wertsch ch. 6)
  • Start reading Lave & Wenger. We'll talk about it next week.

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• 1/28: Learning from Others, Supported by Software

  Reading:

  • "Learning by Collaborating: Convergent Conceptual Change," by Jeremy Roschelle (TK ch. 9)
  
  Recommended:
  • SimCalc (software by Roschelle and colleages--the sequel to the software discussed in the paper)

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• 1/30: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP)

  Reading:

  • Lave and Wenger (whole book)

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• 2/4: Cognitive Apprenticeship

  Reading:

  • Collins, A., Brown, J. S., & Newman, S. E. (1989). Cognitive apprenticeship: Teaching the craft of reading, writing, and mathematics. In L. B. Resnick (Ed.), Knowing, Learning, and Instruction: Essays in Honor of Robert Glaser (pp. 453-494). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates. (handout)
  
  Short papers due.
  

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• 2/6: Communication Patterns & Learning (Guest Lecture, Jim Hudson)

  
  Reading:

  • IRC Francais: The Creation of an Internet-Based SLA Community by James M. Hudson and Amy Bruckman (2002). Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) 15(2), 109-134.
  • "The Origins of ENFI," by Trent Batson. In "Network-Based Classrooms: Promises and Realities," edited by Chip Bruce, Joy Kreeft Peyton, and Trent Batson. Cambridge University Press, 1993. (handout)
  
  Note: asb at HCIC

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• 2/11: Authenticity

  Reading:

  • Shaffer, D.W., & Resnick, M. (1999). "Thick" Authenticity: New Media and Authentic Learning. Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 10(2), 195-215. (handout)
  • "Seeing Students as Writers" by Geoffrey Sirc and Thomas Reynolds. In "Network-Based Classrooms: Promises and Realities," edited by Chip Bruce, Joy Kreeft Peyton, and Trent Batson. Cambridge University Press, 1993. (handout)

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• 2/13: Belvedere & Representations of Argumentation

  Reading:

  • Towards a Systematic Study of Representational Guidance for Collaborative Learning Discourse by Dan Suthers Journal of Universal Computer Science 7(3), 2001.
  • Suthers, D. D., & Hundhausen, C. (Accepted for Publication - 2003). An Empirical Study of the Effects of Representational Guidance on Collaborative Learning. Journal of the Learning Sciences.

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• 2/18: Ethics of Online Research

  Reading:

  • Studying the amateur artist: A perspective on disguising data collected in human subjects research on the Internet by Amy Bruckman

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• 2/20: Communities of Learners

  Reading:

  • Rogoff, Barbara (1994). "Developing Understanding of the Idea of Communities of Learners." Mind, Culture, and Activity 1:4, pp. 209-229. (handout)
  • "The Computer as a Convivial Tool," by Aaron Falbel. In "Constructionism," edited by Idit Harel and Seymour Papert. Ablex Publishing, 1991.

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• 2/25: NOT Learning from Others

  Reading:

  • Kohl, Herbert (1994). "I won't learn from you." New York: The New Press, pp. 1-32.
  
  Midterm papers due.
  

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• 2/27: KGS/One Sky Many Voices

  Reading:

  • Paper(s) chosen by KGS/OSMV midterm teams

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• 3/4 - 3/6: Spring Break

  
  

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• 3/11: KIE/WISE

  Reading:

  • Paper(s) chosen by KIE/WISE midterm teams

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• 3/13: CSILE/Knowledge Forum

  Reading:

  • Paper(s) chosen by CSILE midterm teams

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• 3/18: CoVIS

  Reading:

  • Paper(s) chosen by CoVIS midterm teams

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• 3/20: Preliminary designs

  Come to class prepared to discuss your preliminary design for your final project.
  
  Preliminary designs for final projects due.

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• 3/25: Discussion of preliminary designs, continued

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• 3/27: Small Groups

  Reading:

  • "Conditions for Productive Small Groups" by Elizabeth Cohen

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• 4/1: CoWebs

  Reading:

  • Guzdial, M., Ludovice, P., Realff, M., Morley, T., and Carroll, K. (2002). "When Collaboration Does't Work." Available at http:///coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/Papers
  • Randomly select one of the other CoWeb papers linked on that same page, and come to class prepared to summarize it.

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• 4/3: Log File Analysis for CSCL systems

  Reading:

  • Should We Leverage Natural-Language Knowledge? by Amy Bruckman and Elizabeth Edwards. Proceedings of CHI 99. New York: ACM Press, pp. 207-214.
  • Gender and Programming Achievement in a CSCL Environment by Amy Bruckman, Carlos Jensen, and Austina DeBonte. Long talk, Proceedings of CSCL 2002, Boulder, CO, January 2002.

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• 4/8: Other useful theories: Social Network Analysis, Distributed Cognition

  Reading:

  • "Building Social Networks Via Computer Networks," by Caroline Haythornethwaite. In "Building Virtual Communities" edited by Renninger and Shumar.

  Talk on giving a talk presented in class.

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• 4/10: Distributed Cognition; The Big Picture

  We'll spend half the class on D-Cog, and the other half on discussing the field more generally. What are the key issues for the future of CSCL as a field? Please come to class with one issue to discuss.

  • "How a Cockpit Remembers Its Speeds," by Edwin Hutchins. Cognitive Science 19, 265-288, 1995.

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• 4/15: Presentations: final design projects

  Final design papers due.

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• 4/17: Presentations: final design projects (cont.)

  
  

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• 4/22-4: No class (asb at AERA)