Examples of curricula of courses by well-known CSCL profs:

• Gerry Stahl - Drexel - Math Forum: http://gerrystahl.net/teaching/index.html (several CSCW and HCI courses, but also some older CSCL courses)
• Dan Suthers - UHawaii - representational guidance - http://lilt.ics.hawaii.edu/suthers/ (links to some courses in Discourse, I have a login - courses on HCI and collective intelligence)
• Carolyn Rose Penstein - CMU - machine learning and analytics - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cprose/Teaching.html - one on machine learning, and one on CSCL
• Ravi Vatrapu - Copenhagen Business School (did PhD under Dan Suthers) - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cprose/Teaching.html - courses on technology enhanced teaching
• Erik Duval - Leuven - hypermedia and databases -  has course on HCI http://erikduval.wordpress.com/about/
• Sadhana Puntambekar - U Wisconsin-Madison - two courses: Interactive Learning Environment, and Cognition of Digital Information. http://www.compassproject.net/sadhana/index.htm
• Pierre Dillenbourg - Polytechnic Lausanne - course on Computer Supported Collaborative Work - http://infowww.epfl.ch/imoniteur_ISAP/!itffichecours.htm?ww_i_matiere=1770948&ww_x_anneeAcad=39486325&ww_i_section=249847&ww_i_niveau=6683147&ww_c_langue=en
• Caroline Haythornthwaite - UBC - courses on distributed knowledge and community informatics - http://haythorn.wordpress.com/teaching/
• Heidy Maldonado - PhD student at Stanford - some older courses on HCI, online learning communities, and visualizations in teaching - http://www.stanford.edu/~kiky/teaching.html
• Chip Bruce - iSchool at Illinois - inquiry based learning plus courses with Haythornthwaite - http://chipbruce.wordpress.com/teaching/
• Amy Bruckman - College of Computing Georgia Tech - lot's of courses of design of online communities etc - http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~asb/teaching/index.html
• Paul Dourish - UC Irvine - Lot's of courses on ubiquitous computing, research methods etc http://www.dourish.com/teaching.html
• Alberto Barbosa Raposo - U Pontefico Rio de Janeiro - course on HCI in Portuguese - http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~abraposo/
• Jörg Haake - Distance university in Hagen - courses in CSCW and CSCL in German - http://www.pi6.fernuni-hagen.de/Lehre/
• Gerhard Fischer - UC Boulder - life-long learning - courses on Design, Creativity and New Media http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/courses/index.html

Other resources
Links and writeup on ed tech wiki about CSCL: http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Computer-supported_collaborative_learning

Chief journal in CSCL field, OA: http://ijcscl.org/

CSCL, an historical perspective, the "definitive" text on CSCL? Translated to a bunch of languages: http://gerrystahl.net/cscl/ (also a bunch of other OA resources on Stahls' page).

Articles on Knowledge Forum and Knowledge Building (many OA): http://www.ikit.org/resources.html

Statistical data mining tutorials: http://www.autonlab.org/tutorials/

Idea: Erik Duval will be keynoting CSCL 2011. He was at Learning Analytics in Banff - very interested in open teaching and learning. He might be interested. 

Ideas for assignments

Collaborating creating a wiki on CSCL resources

• everyone chooses a senior CSCL researcher and writes a profile of them, where they are, their main papers, how their thinking has evolved etc (like CIEClopedia)
• key concepts in CSCL (some of this could be more like a glossary, some of it might be much more deeply developed articles, with citations etc)
• tools that exist - both hosted and for download - for data analysis, discourse environments, etc
• seminal articles in CSCL, abstract, discussion
• CSCL learning resources, including video interviews
• Syllabi of existing CSCL courses
• graduate programs in CSCL (this is less essential)

We should also think about what of this already exists, and also what might more productively be put on an existing platform, like Wikipedia

Testing out different kinds of discourse environments - but being careful about not dispersing dialogue too much from one central one. 


Who are expected participants of this course? What prerequisite knowledge do we expect them to have? What are their needs?
Good point. I guess graduate students interested in CSCL, or people working with open education etc. Interesting point about pre-requisite knowledge, we'd want people that are at a fairly similar level I think. Not sure who would apply, and how to make that happen.