Talk:HCI-CSCL: Midterm Conceptual Design Paper

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Javier Lanchang Collaborative Calendar A scenario of a CSCL researcher sets the stage for this conceptual design of a collaborative calendar. First, a group of students is formed into small groups based on a survey of psychological characteristics. The groups are matched with researchers from around the world and a calendaring system is used to coordinate their meetings. Course management is also integrated into the calendar system. The collaboration among CSCL researchers is situated by this scenario into a teacher-centered classroom setting. What if the first researcher just wanted to collaborate with the other researchers about curriculum design? Would you have the researchers take a skills survey in order to group them?

The intent was not a skills survey but to have participants take some type of survey on their interactional style to create collaborative groups that are pre-disposed to collaboratively working based on their individual traits. By offering the option to custom create questions, they can be skills/experience/or interest based survey questions. That was also the reason for allowing manual group assignments in those cases where the pool of interacting individuals was small and possibly knew each other. Under such circumstances of prior interactions, the need for individual assessment would be unnecessary.

Would there be any need for the management components?

Borrowing from the business management, I would still stand for the need for management components but under the above scenario, rather than posting grades, perhaps posting milestones and other objective markers that the group is trying to achieve. Researchers are of course under more egalitarian status, rather than instructor/student relationships and such goals would be needed to also create general understanding and set deadlines for the collaborative objectives. For CSCL where the community may be coming from different or related disciplines, a standard lexicon of terms would also be useful to avoid misunderstandings if they can be collaboratively agreed upon.

--Javier 00:36, 8 May 2008 (EDT)Javier