CSCL scenarios : A cocktail of CLFPs

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CSCL scenarios A cocktail of CLFPs

• Symeon Retalis (retal_at_unipi.gr)
• G. Lazakidou, P. Georgiakakis, C. Kefalidis, S.
  Karamouzis

University of Piraeus Department of Technology
Education and Digital Systems
Computer Supported Learning Engineering
Laboratory http//cosy.ted.unipi.gr
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Overview

• Motivation of our work
• Designing effective CSCL scripts
• The idea of variations of a Design pattern
• Building tools to support CSCL scripts
• Concluding remarks

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What Is Innovation (1/2)?

• Innovation is transformation of existing
  knowledge and ideas into new or better commercial
  product that add value to the customer. (Carter
  Evans Koop 1990)
• Innovation could have a composite definition a
  process whereby a new idea is conceived and
  detailed in the mind, developed into a physical
  entity through detailed design, analysis,
  experimentation, and production, and then
  introduced to give a company a competitive edge.
• A problem solving process creative idea
  generation process

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What Is Innovation (2/2)?
Source Ed Ashford, presentation by SAS Global
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Collaboration for Innovation
Unfocused activities and free collaboration does
not necessarily produce effective learning
outcomes
Source Michael Beyerlein (2006), Keynote Address
at American Creativity Association International
Conference 2006
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Needs when designing CSCL situations

• Dynamic CSCL Scenarios need for
• Structured designs of collaborative learning
  situations
• Flexible customizable designs of collaborative
  learning situations

Activity level (macro) Collaborative learning
flow, i.e., sequence of activities that make up a
learning process Action level (micro)
Detailed learning actions within an activity
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Collaborative strategies/techniques

• Strategies like brainstorming Mind mapping
  encourages open and random creative thinking and
  communications
• Six thinking hats is an intuitive way to keep
  ones thoughts focused while problem solving
• Strategies like Jigsaw, TAPS advocate that there
  is no collaboration without communication
• Groups need not only communication, but also
  share information, resources and knowledge

Source http//gsic.tel.uva.es/collage
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CL Flow Patterns

• Broadly accepted techniques repetitively used by
  practitioners (best /good practices)
• Codified
• as patterns for the design of (potentially
  effective) CSCL scenarios (scripts)
• so that they can be reused in different
  situations / content / disciplines

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TPS CLFP Thinking, forming pairs and sharing
Source http//gsic.tel.uva.es/collage
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eARMA CLFP for collaborative problem solving

• Problem Solving Steps
• Definition of the problem
• Constructing a strategy
• Organizing information
• Allocation of resources
• Monitoring the solving process
• Evaluating the solving process and outcomes
• (Sternberg, 2003)

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The CLFP design pattern format
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Variations of a strategy in a CLFP

• A new element needs to be added, entitled
  variations.
• This element will specify what to change and
  under which conditions in the sequence of
  activities, the resources or the tools.
• All these changes need to be justified in order
  to illuminate the rationale behind these
  variations.
• to give advice to designers on how to make
  effective mixtures of strategies without
  harnessing the basic educational philosophy and
  added value

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Example of Variations

• Instead of the Sternbergs model a teacher may
  select the IDEAL problem solving model (Bransford
  Stein, 1984 which includes five steps.

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Variations of a strategy in a CLFP Preparation
of a cocktail

• During the preparation of a cocktail,
• the cornerstone is an understanding of the
  relationships between strong and weak, sour and
  sweet
• in CSCL, a designer should blend the phases, the
  resources, and the tools (i.e. the ingredients)
  together cautiously.
• Otherwise, this scenario will resemble a weak or
  watery development like a cocktail with
  inappropriate flavour, texture and colour.

Source http//www.vincenzos.com/images/cocktail.g
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Tools for supporting collaboration for innovation
- Affordances
http//share.skype.com/sites/en/2005/08/the_skypef
orumde_skype_picture.html
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SyCo tool
Private Canvas
Shared Canvas
Libraries of shapes
Notes
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Main Process of Computer Supported Collaborative
Innovation Process
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Collaboration for Innovation
Source http//images.wnec.edu/teamwork.gif
The present work was carried out as part of the
idSpace project on Tooling and Training for
collaborative product innovation
http//idspace-project.org It is funded in part
by the European Commission FP7-IST-2007-1-41,
project number 216799
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Concluding

• Technology is not the solution (panacea) to
  everything!
• Designing scripts for promoting creative thinking
  is art science

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CSCL scenarios A cocktail of CLFPs

• Symeon Retalis (retal_at_unipi.gr)
• G. Lazakidou, P. Georgiakakis, C. Kefalidis, S.
  Karamouzis

University of Piraeus Department of Technology
Education and Digital Systems
Computer Supported Learning Engineering
Laboratory http//cosy.ted.unipi.gr