Social sensitivity: a manifesto for CSCL research

Creative Feedback: a Manifesto for Social Learning

Arguably one of the most important activities of a university is to provide environments where students develop the wide variety of social and intellectual skills necessary for giving and receiving feedback. We are not talking here about the kinds of activity typically associated with the term “feedback” such as that which occurs through individual course evaluation questionnaires or more unive...

Reconstructing geneticization: a research manifesto.

There is little difference between the ethical, legal and social concerns regarding commercialization and geneticization. Most of the critiques posit specific effects on individuals and communities, such as loss of opportunity to purchase insurance or to be employed, reduced tolerance for diversity in the range of human abilities and experiences, increased pressure to utilize genetic technologi...

A prism of CSCL research

Our field of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning necessarily struggles to integrate contributions and perspectives from a diverse set of disciplines, technologies, practices, methodologies, and theories. First, based on its very name, CSCL must bridge the professional disparity between computer science and learning science. Then it has to function within the multiplicity of approaches to ...

Social networking and education: emerging research within CSCL

In this paper I introduce a youth-initiated practice: online social networking that is transforming our society in important ways and has vast implications for learning research and education. I introduce the social and technical features that characterize social networking systems and outline results from emerging research that suggests the social and intellectual practices in which participan...

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