60 likes | 173 Views
Wolfgang Appelt. FH Institute for Applied Information Technology - FIT (about 120 people, St. Augustin near Bonn) Working in CSCW group (about 35 people) Head of cooperation support for distributed teams and organisations department (6 persons + students)
E N D
Wolfgang Appelt • FH Institute for Applied Information Technology - FIT (about 120 people, St. Augustin near Bonn) • Working in CSCW group (about 35 people) • Head of cooperation support for distributed teams and organisations department (6 persons + students) • Engaged in national / European research & development projects • Short term projects for customers from industry / government • BSCW Shared Workspace System usually development basis • Gerry has worked in our group in 2001/2002 on ITCOLE project • BSCL (Basic Support for Collaborative Learning) developed in ITCOLE VMT CSCL Workshop June 2004
Pedagogical Model of BSCL • Progressive Inquiry Theory (Paavola et. al., Proceedings CSCL 2002) • Knowledge is created by students in discursive mode • Students classify their contributions (problem, comment, help request ...) • Knowledge building process supported by computer usage VMT CSCL Workshop June 2004
BSCL - Basic Support for Collaborative Learning • BSCL Features • Creation of Shared Workspaces for courses and groups • User management (registration, assignment to courses and groups) • Upload of documents, images, spreadsheets, etc. • Discussion forums with mandatory thinking types • Event and notification features • Document management features (versioning, locking, ...) • Email integration • Multilingual interface (English, Italian, Greek, Dutch, German, Finnish) VMT CSCL Workshop June 2004
BSCL User Interface • BSCL • Software VMT CSCL Workshop June 2004
Field Tests in Schools • Two series of field tests in schools • January to June 2002 • October 2002 to April 2003 (with revised version of Synergeia) • Teachers were trained/supported before and during field tests • Pedagogical model of Progressive Inquiry • Usage of Synergeia system • Ca. 35 schools, 85 teachers and 1,500 students • Primary and secondary level • Age between 6 and 20 • Finland, Greece, Italy and The Netherlands • Art, biology, grammar, history, literature, philosophy, physics ... • Several joint projects between locally separated schools VMT CSCL Workshop June 2004
Current Status • BSCL available at http://bscl.fit.fraunhofer.de • BSCL Server (over 1200 teachers and 4500 students registered) • Software available for download • Upgrade to latest BSCW version under development • Currently used in Venus transit project (BSCW, not BSCL) • organised by scientific magazine of German TV • more than 700 school classes involved • replay of historical experiment VMT CSCL Workshop June 2004