Workshop on LANGUAGES AND PLATFORMS FOR CSCL SCRIPTS at the CSCL 2007

Intended audience:

Practitioners and researchers of educational science, educational psychology and computer science

Theme and goals of the workshop:

Scripts are sequences of roles and activities provided to learners to facilitate specific learning processes. Scripts can be described in a machine-readable language and realized in specific CSCL platforms, which can be used by the different actors of a script (students, teachers) in order to achieve their tasks as suggested by the script.

The objective of the workshop is to study the questions related to the implementation of CSCL scripts, from their modeling to their effective deployment on a given platform. Participants will be given the opportunity to explore a variety of examples of scripts and platforms and to create and share their own scripts.

Workshop features:

• contributions that focus on the theoretical background and empirical findings on CSCL scripts
• analyses and discussion of given languages or platforms for CSCL scripts
• participants will create scripts that they will be able to use in their own settings with different types of languages and platforms

Contact person: Armin Weinberger ([email protected])

Co-Organizers: Miky Ronen, Pierre Tchounikine, Andreas Harrer, Pierre Dillenbourg, Jörg Haake, Yael Kali, Frank Fischer and Dan Kohen-Vacs

Please register as soon as possible for the workshop but before April 30 through the CSCL conference site.