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Pre-Conference Event, CSCL 2007:

Wiki Research: Knowledge Advancement and Design

A pre-conference workshop at CSCL 2007
all day, July 17, 2007, at Rutgers, New Brunswick

Contact person:

Andreas Lund

andreas.lund@intermedia.uio.no

We invite researchers with an interest in the innovative educational use of wiki technology to this pre-conference event. The event is organized by Kaleidoscope member InterMedia, University of Oslo and School of Informatics, University of Indiana. The goal of this workshop is to identify emerging research issues in the study of relationships between knowledge advancement and wiki design for use in school, workplace, and virtual settings.

The workshop focuses on two interrelated themes; design and knowledge advancement. The knowledge advancement theme explores the educational use of wikis inside different kinds of institutions and the challenges that arise as the open architecture and shared authorship features of wiki software meet established practices, tasks, and concepts of collaborative knowledge building. This links to the design theme, which takes up the design of affordances for domain specific features in wiki technology and support for cognitive development as well as social interaction. Designs that afford spaces for teachers and other types of experts will also be in focus.

Participants will be invited to contribute to a 'wiki on wiki research' in advance of the workshop, coordinated by the organizers. In this way, specific experience with an Xwiki application may be brought into the design problems raised by this workshop. In the wiki we will raise and pursue issues that will inform discussion and activities in the pre-conference workshop. Thus, the more detailed content of the workshop will emerge as a result of wiki activity. Following the workshop, we would like to engage participants in further developing the wiki environments and their use in and across diverse settings.

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