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International Journal of CSCL
Published by Springer, the first volume of IJCSCL appeared in 2006. IJCSCL is a multidisciplinary journal which publishes papers reflecting the interests of the international CSCL community.

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Send a message to info@isls.org with the message that you want to be part of this community.

CSCL Community Governance
History
Recent CSCL Conferences
Related Conferences and Organizations

The CSCL Community is made up of ISLS members who are particularly interested in issues related to Computer Support for Collaborative Learning. Its committee, co-chaired by Hans Spada and Daniel Suthers, works to strengthen the international CSCL community as part of ISLS, working with the ISLS board and the other committees on CSCL affairs, including the CSCL Conferences and the new CSCL journal.

CSCL Community Governance
The CSCL Community Committee includes an international selection of ISLS members who are interested in CSCL:

Pierre Dillenbourg, Switzerland
Cindy Hmelo-Silver, USA
Chris Hoadley, USA
Paul Kirschner, Netherlands
Tim Koschmann, USA
Naomi Miyake, Japan
Claire O´Malley, UK
Roy Pea, USA
Hans Spada, Germany
Gerry Stahl, USA
Dan Suthers, USA
Barbara Wasson, Norway

These committee members have been elected in June 2006. The next elections will be held in spring 2008.

Recent CSCL conferences
CSCL 2005 — Taipei, Taiwan
CSCL 2003 — Bergen, Norway
CSCL 2002 — Boulder, CO, USA
EuroCSCL 2001 — Maastricht, Netherlands
CSCL 1999 — Stanford, CA, USA
CSCL 1997 — Toronto, Canada
CSCL 1995 — Bloomington, IN, USA
Workshop on CSCL 91 — Carbondale, IL, USA

Related conferences and organizations
International Society for the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS)
ACM Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work (SIG GROUP)
Euro-CSCL.org: a virtual community started with the ITCOLE Project
European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)

History
A Steering Committee of the CSCL Community was formed on June 16, 2003, at the CSCL '03 conference in Bergen, Norway. Please contact Hans Spada for further information

The following Resolution of the CSCL Community was formulated and signed by participants at CSCL '03:

“A growing international, interdisciplinary CSCL community has been successful in organizing a series of well-attended and highly valued international conferences. To continue this and to further develop the core mission of this community, an organizational framework is necessary.

The attendants of the CSCL 2003 conference in Bergen, Norway, see a good way to do this under the organizational umbrella of the newly formed International Society for the Learning Sciences (ISLS). Condition for doing this is that the community keeps the responsibility for such core issues as:

Organizing the CSCL conferences
Working to found a new CSCL journal
Financial arrangements

As a first step, an initial steering group should be established as a committee of ISLS to work on these points as well as other relevant organizational issues in good collaboration with the established bodies of ISLS."

This resolution was formulated at an open meeting of ISLS on Monday, June 16, 2003, in Bergen, Norway.