Gerry Stahl (guest post by Brian Maurer and Amanda Meek)

About Gerry Stahl:                          

Gerry Stahl is an academic researcher in the field of CSCL (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning). In 2006 he published a book on CSCL in MIT Press entitled "Group Cognition: Computer Support for Building Collaborative Knowledge" and launched the "International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning". In 2009 he published a book in Springer's CSCL book series entitled "Studying Virtual Math Teams" on the VMT Project that he directs.

Gerry Stahl earned his BS in math and science at MIT. He earned a PhD in continental philosophy and social theory at Northwestern University, conducting his research at the Universities of Heidelberg and Frankfurt. He later earned a PhD in computer science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He now teaches at the College of Information Science & Technology at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

 Source/From:  

http://www.amazon.com/Gerry-Stahl/e/B001JS0IP4

Notable Articles, WebPages, and Videos

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61cYJrRM4FU

Gerry Stahl’s opening keynote speech during DeLFI, the first annual German Conference on E-Learning, which was held in Munich in 2003. He spoke about what the future holds for computer support in e- learning.

https://www.facebook.com/gerry.stahl.9

 Gerry Stahl's personal Facebook Page

http://www.gerrystahl.net/cscl/ Gerry Stahl's personal Website

http://cscl-community.blogspot.com

A blog about Gerry Stahl's book. It is not clear if he wrote the blog or not, but it includes information about his book, and incorporates logos and images from his personal site.

http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/GerryStahl

Link includes a bio of Gerry Stahl and a list of his published books / articles.

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=P3igc9gAAAAJ&hl=en

 Google Database of online publications and articles (available for view) by Gerry Stahl

http://gerrystahl.net/cscl/CSCL_English.htm

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning - A Historical Perspective

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.113.4752&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Group Cognition: Computer Support for Building Collaborative Knowledge

Other Notable Videos

YouTube Channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/GerryStahl?feature=watch

Three part talk on the historical approach to CSCL:

• Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLC8Ew8J9Hg
• Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrGfYnLRPgg 
• Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rh-3FnjLp4

Pierre Dillenbourg (guest post by Brian Maurer and Amanda Meek)

About Pierre Dillenbourg:

A former teacher in elementary school, Pierre Dillenbourg graduated in educational science (University of Mons, Belgium). He started his research on learning technologies in 1984. He obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Lancaster (UK), in the domain of artificial intelligence applications for educational software. He has been professor assistant at TECFA, University of Geneva. He joined EPFL in November 2002. He has been the director of CRAFT, the pedagogical unit for 10 years and is now the academic director of the EPFL Center for Digital Education and head of the CHILI Lab: "Computer-Human Interaction for Learning & Instruction."

Source / From:  http://people.epfl.ch/cgi-bin/people?id=155704&op=bio&lang=en&cvlang=en

Notable Articles, WebPages, and Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIRDxHAnAlg

The Future of Learning - Keynote talk at Sidney: International Conference for Learning Science - More about orchestration and how to predict collaborative “drop outs” and work with teams to encourage equal participation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdF_AnyiYfk

Classroom Ergonomics - Interesting talk about classroom orchestration, and how having tangible elements in the class work (actual pieces of paper that students can download, print out, and hold in their hand) improves the performance of students taking online courses.

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/19/06/98/PDF/Dillenbourg-Pierre-2006a.pdf

Sharing Solutions: Persistence and Grounding in Multi-Modal Collaborative Problem Solving. Co-

authored by David Traum.

Dillenbourg, P. (2013). Design for Classroom Orchestration. Journal of Computers in Education.

Dillenbourg, P. (2002). Over-scripting CSCL: The risks of blending collaborative learning with instructional design. In P. A. Kirschner (Ed). Three worlds of CSCL. Can we support CSCL (pp. 61-91). Heerlen, Open Universiteit Nederland.

Dillenbourg P. & Traum, D. (2006) Sharing solutions: persistence and grounding in multi-modal collaborative problem solving. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 15 (1), pp. 121-151.

Dillenbourg, P., Baker, M., Blaye, A. & O'Malley, C.(1996) The evolution of research on collaborative learning. In E. Spada & P. Reiman (Eds) Learning in Humans and Machine: Towards an interdisciplinary learning science (pp. 189-211). Oxford: Elsevier.

Dillenbourg P. (1999) What do you mean by collaborative learning? In P. Dillenbourg (Ed) Collaborative- learning: Cognitive and Computational Approaches (pp.1-19). Oxford: Elsevier.

Other Notable Web Activity

https://twitter.com/dillenbo

Twitter Account - It appears he wasn’t overly active, with only two “tweets” and the last one from 2010.

https://www.facebook.com/pierre.dillenbourg

 Personal Facebook Page