Part I: Theories of Collaborative Learning
Week 1

Monday, January 12
Introductions and overview of seminar.
Assignment:  Provide a pointer to your personal webpage by 1/16.
Wednesday, January 14
Discussion of readings and planning the discussion forum with Jonathon Ostwald.
Readings:
Koschmann, T. (1996).  Paradigm shifts and instructional technology.  In T. Koschmann (Ed.), CSCL: Theory and practice of an emerging paradigm (pp. 1-23).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Monday, January 19
No class (Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday)
Wednesday, January 21
Discussion of readings.
Readings:
Perret-Clermont, A-N. & Schubauer-Leoni, M-L. (1981).*  Conflict and cooperation as opportunities for learning.  In W.P. Robinson (Ed.), Communication in development (pp. 203-234).  New York, Academic Press.

Monday, January 26
Discussion of readings.
Readings: TBA
Cole, M., Griffith, P., & Newman, D. (1989).*  The construction zone: Working for cognitive change in school.  New York: Cambridge University Press.  [Chap. 3, "Basic Concepts for Discussing Cognitive Change", pp. 59-75]
 
Wednesday, January 28
Videotape of Kaptelinin presentation and discussion of readings.
Readings:
Wertsch, J. & Stone, C.A. (1985).*  The concept of internalization in Vygotsky's account of the genesis of higher mental functions.  In J. Wertsch (Ed.), Culture and communication (pp. 162-179).  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Monday, February 2
Discussion of readings.
Readings:
Lave, J. (1996).* Teaching, as learning, in practice.  Mind, Culture, and Activity, 3, 149-164.
Wednesday, February 4
Discussion of readings.
Readings:
Lave, J. and Wenger, E. (1991).*  Situated learning: Legitmate peripheral participation.  New York: Cambridge University Press.  [Chap. 1 & 2, pp. 27-58]

Monday, February 9
Discussion of readings.
Readings:
Anderson, J., Reder, L., & Simon, H. (1996).*  Situated learning and education.  Educational Researcher, 25(4), 5-11.
Wednesday, February 11
Discussion of readings.
Readings:
Pea, R. (1996).*  Seeing what we build together: Distributed multimedia learning environments for transformative communications.  In T. Koschmann (Ed.), CSCL: Theory and Practice of an Emerging Paradigm (pp. 171-186).  Rahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Monday, February 16
Reflection and abstraction (R & A) discussion on prior five weeks work.
Assignment:  Paper proposals due.

Wednesday, February 18
Discussion of readings.
Readings:
Koschmann, T., Kelson, A.C., Feltovich, P.J., & Barrows, H.S. (1996).*  Computer-Supported Problem-Based Learning: A principled approach to the use of computers in collaborative learning.  In T.D. Koschmann (Ed.), CSCL: Theory and practice of an emerging paradigm (pp. 83-124).  Hillsdale, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum.

Monday, February 23
Discussion of readings.
Readings:
Blumenfeld, P., Soloway, E., Marx, R., Krajcik, J., Guzdial, M., & Palincsar, A. (1991).*  Motivating project-based learning: Sustaining the doing, supporting the learning.  Educational Psychologist, 26, 369-398.
Wednesday, February 25
Discussion of readings.
Readings:
Brown, A. & Campione, J. (1994).*  Guided discovery in a community of learners.  In K. McGilly (Ed.), Classroom lessons: Integrating cognitive theory and classroom practice (pp. 229-270).  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Monday, March 2
Discussion of readings.
Readings:
Hatano, G., & Inagaki, K. (1991).*  Sharing cognition through collective comprehension activity.  In L. Resnick, J. Levine, & S. Teasley (Eds.) Perspectives on socially-shared cognition (pp. 331-348).  Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Wednesday, March 4
Short discussion of readings followed by end-of-unit R & A discussion.
Readings:
Tomasello, M., Kruger, A.C., & Ratner, H. (1993).*  Cultural learning.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, 495-552.

Monday, March 9
Discussion of readings.
Readings:
Anderson, A. & Draper, S. (1991).*  An introduction to measuring and understanding the learning process.  Computers in Education, 17, 1-11.

Draper, S. & Anderson, A. (1991).*  The significance of dialogue in learning and observing learning.  Computers in Education, 17, 93-107.

Wednesday, March 11
Discussion of readings.
Readings:
Roschelle, J. (1992).  Learning by collaboration: Convergent conceptual change.  In T.D. Koschmann (Ed.), CSCL: Theory and practice of an emerging paradigm (pp. 171-186).  Hillsdale, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum.

Monday, March 16
Discussion of readings.
Readings:
Jordan, B., & Henderson, A.  (1994).*  Interaction Analysis: Foundations and practice.  Journal of the Learning Sciences, 4, 39-103.
Wednesday, March 18
Discussion of readings.
Readings:
Riel, M. (1996).  Cross-classroom collaboration:  Communication and education.   In T. Koschmann (Ed.), CSCL: Theory and practice of an emerging paradigm (pp. 187-207).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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Monday, March 30
View tape of Jeong & Chi  presentation at CSCL '97 and discuss.  Distribute papers from special issue of Discourse Processes.
Assignment:  Paper drafts due.
Wednesday, April 1
View video segment from AERA session and discuss ways of analyzing F2F collaboration.
Readings:
Papers from upcoming issue of Discourse Processes.

Monday, April 6
Discussion of readings.
Readings:
Kolodner, J. & Guzdial, M. (1996).  Effects with and of CSCL: Tracking learning in a new paradigm.   In T. Koschmann (Ed.), CSCL: Theory and practice of an emerging paradigm (pp. 307-320).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Wednesday, April 8
Short discussion of readings followed by end-of-unit R & A discussion.
Readings:
Matusov, E. (1996).*  Intersubjectivity without agreement.  Mind, Culture, and Activity, 3, 25-45.

Monday, April 13
Discussion of readings.
Assignment:  Paper reviews due.
Readings:
Scardamalia, M. & Bereiter, C. (1996).  Computer Support for Knowledge-Building Communities.   In T. Koschmann (Ed.), CSCL: Theory and practice of an emerging paradigm (pp. 249-268).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Wednesday, April 15
No class meeting (AERA meeting).

Monday, April 20
Discussion of readings.
Assignment:  Collaborative re-writes due.
Readings:
Scardamalia, M., Bereiter, C. & Lamon, M. (1994).*  The CSILE Project: Trying to bring the classroom into World 3.  In K. McGilly (Ed.), Classroom Lessons: Integrating cognitive theory and classroom practice (pp. 201-228).  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Oshima, J. (1997).*  Students' construction of scientific explanations in a collaborative hyper-media learning environment.  In Proceeding of CSCL '97 (pp. 187-197).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Lipponen, L. & Hakkarainen, K. (1997).*  Developing a culture of inquiry in computer-supported collaborative learning.  In Proceeding of CSCL '97 (pp. 164-178).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
 

Wednesday, April 22
Discussion of technologies for shared repositories of data (e.g., MUDs, MOOs, databases, non-CSILE threaded discussion tools).
Readings:  Select one or two pieces from the list of suggested readings on class discussion forum.
 

Monday, April 27
Discussion of construction environments and tools for collaborative simulation with special guests Alex Repenning and Clayton Lewis. 
Readings: Select one or two pieces from the list of suggested readings on class discussion forum.
 
Wednesday, April 29
Discussion of technologies to support collaborative writing with special guest Andee Rubin.
Readings:  Select one or two pieces from the list of suggested readings on class discussion forum.
 

Monday, May 4
Discussion of readings.
Assignment:  Revised papers due.
Readings:  Choose one of the following:

Hutchins, E. (1993).*  Learning to navigate.  In S. Chaiklin & J. Lave (Eds.), Understanding practice: Prespectives on activity and context (pp. 35-63).  Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Unversity Press.

Holquist, M. (1990).*  Language as dialogue.  In M. Holquist, Dialogism: Bakhtin and his world (pp. 40-66).  New York: Routledge.