March 07, 2008

Workshop Coordinators

Stephanie Teasley received her PhD in the Psychology Department of the University of Pittsburgh where she worked at the Learning Research and Development Center. She is a Research Associate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan, where she is the Director of the Doctoral Program and heads the Usability, Support and Research Lab. Her research interests include Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and Human Computer Interaction.

Resnick, L. B., Levine, J., & Teasley, S. D. (Eds.). (1991). Perspectives on socially shared cognition. Washington, DC: APA.

Teasley, S. & Wolinsky, S. (2001). Scientific collaborations at a distance. Science, 292, 2254-2255.

Volker Wulf has studied computer science and business administration at the RWTH Aachen and the University of Paris VI. Dr. Wulf received a PhD at the Computer Science Department of the University of Dortmund and a Habilitation at the University of Hamburg. Currently he is Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Siegen and heads a research group at Fraunhofer-FIT. His research interests include Computer Supported Cooperative Learning, Knowledge Management, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and Human Computer Interaction.

Fischer, G., Rohde, M., & Wulf, V. (2007). Community-based Learning: The Core Competency of Residential, Research-based Universities. International Journal of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2(1), 9-40.

Rohde, M., Stahl, G., Wulf, V. (2007). Introduction to the Special Issue on Computer Support for Learning Communities. Behaviour & Information Technology, 26(1), 1-3.

Eric Cook is a doctoral student at the University of Michigan School of Information. His research focuses on the influences of technology on creative practice, amateur media and familial narrative construction. He was a participant in workshops at CHI2006 on creative engagement in new media arts and HCI, and in the graduate colloquium at Creativity and Cognition 2007.

Cook, E., Teasley, S. D., Ackerman, M. (2006). Socio-technical Factors of Practice Transmission in an Online Creative Tool Community. In Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2006), Bloomington, IN.

Cook, E. (2007). The Knot of Amateurs & Professionals: Untangling Social Roles in Creative Practice. In Extended Proceedings of ACM Creativity and Cognition 2007, Washington, D.C.

Libby Hemphill is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information. Her research focuses on learning in organizations and in virtual teams. She participated in a workshop on wiki research at CSCL 2007.

Hemphill, L. and Yew, J. (2007). TWiki and WetPaint: Two wikis in academic environments. Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work, Sanibel Island, FL.

Hemphill, L. (2007). Transferring Practice: A study of the diffusion and development of new civil infrastructure. Connections 2007, Philadelphia, PA.

Jude Yew is a doctoral student at the University of Michigan School of Information. His research focus is on the the study and design of systems that enable facilitate collaborative work and learning. Currently, he is investigating how to leverage social performances to enable individuals to contribute and participate in collaborative work environments.

Yew, J., Gibson, F. & Teasley, S. (2006). Learning by Tagging: The Role of Social Tagging in Group Knowledge Formation." MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 2(4).

Yew, J. (2005). Collaborative Narratives: Collaborative Learning in the Blogosphere. In, C. K. Looi, D. Jonassen & M. Ikeda (Eds.), Towards Sustainable and Scalable Educational Innovations Informed the Learning Sciences: Sharing Good Practices of Research, Experimentation and Innovation. Amsterdam, NL: IOS Press.

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