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Doctoral Consortium Workshop
The Doctoral Consortium Workshop aims to foster a community of CSCL students by providing a forum for students to meet and network with peers and leading members of the CSCL community. The Doctoral Consortium Workshop will provide an opportunity for a selected number of invited Ph.D. candidates to share their current dissertation work-in-progress with peers and faculty members from across the CSCL field. Students from all disciplines related to CSCL (education, psychology, computer science, etc) can apply to present their work at the workshop, if they are Ph.D. candidates who have a draft dissertation proposal (or equivalent), but are early enough in the process that they can make changes based on comments received in the workshop. The objectives of the Doctoral Consortium Workshop include:
- Providing a setting for mutual feedback on current research.
- Providing guidance on future research directions.
- Providing a forum for discussing methodological and theoretical issues of central importance to the CSCL field.
- Developing a supportive community of CSCL scholars.
- Developing a spirit of collaborative research across countries and institutions.
- Contributing to the conference experience by fostering interactions with peers and key faculty.
Doctoral Consortium Workshop activities will include pre-conference online discussions to prepare for the workshop. During the workshop, participants will make a short presentation about a particular aspect of their dissertation work that they would like to discuss. Students will also have an opportunity for focused discussions with faculty mentors and other students in the workshop. Workshop discussions can be focused on different aspects of a student’s dissertation work, including:
- How students may approach their research goals and questions.
- How a student’s research generally impacts the CSCL field.
- Research issues that other doctoral students are likely to be confronting in their work.
- Discussions of methodological and theoretical importance.
Applicants to the Doctoral Consortium Workshop should submit the following information through the conference submission system:
- A two-page document in conference publication format that includes contact information, university affiliation, proposed dissertation title, advisor’s name, and a summary of the proposed dissertation work
- How a student’s research generally impacts the CSCL field.
- A letter of recommendation from your dissertation advisor, including an assessment of the current status of your work, and an expected date for dissertation completion.
Applications will be reviewed by a committee and selected on the basis of their anticipated contribution to the workshop goals. Emphasis will be placed on forming a diverse group of high quality students.
All applications are due by December 20, 2008. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance status via email and will be asked to provide confirmation of student status at the conference.
The selected Doctoral Students papers participating in the Doctoral Consortium will be published in a special volume of the CSCL 2009 Proceedings. The camera ready format of the corresponding paper, (following the Conference Publication Guidelines) will be due by March 1, 2009.
Doctoral Consortium Organisers:
- Chris Quintana — quintana@umich.edu
- Pierre Tchounikine — Pierre.Tchounikine@imag.fr
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