ijCSCL issue 2 now online -- issue 1 in print

The premier issue of the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (ijCSCL vol. 1, no. 1) was showcased at the large conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA 2006) in San Francisco last April. It is now being mailed to all members of ISLS.

Issue one includes the following. Full text of this issue only is freely available at the Springer website

• Kienle & Wessner on the development of the CSCL community
• Jones, Dirckinck-Holmfeld & Lindström on a meso-level approach to CSCL
• Lee, Chan & van Aalst on peer assessment in CSCL
• Rick & Guzdial on situating a wiki in college courses
• Fuks, Pimentel & de Lucena on overcoming chat confusion
• Wegerif on dialogic understanding and thinking skills

Issue two is now in press. It is available freely with the prepublication proofs of the full text of all articles at the ijCSCL website. The official versions are also available electronically to all subscribers at the Springer site. Subscriptions are available for free to paid members of ISLS -- see http://www.isls.org/membership.html to join ISLS.

Issue two includes:

• Arnseth & Ludvigsen on systemic vs dialogic research in CSCL
• Kali on a design principles database
• Yukawa on co-reflection and narrative
• Oshima, et al. on Japanese science pedagogy
• Lonchamp on a generic model of chat

Both issues reflect the international character of the CSCL community. Issue one authors are from Germany, UK, Denmark, Sweden, China, Canada, US and Brazil. Issue two authors are from Norway, Israel, US, Japan and France.

For information on submitting papers to ijCSCL, go to http://ijcscl.org/. To volunteer to be a reviewer for the journal, send me an email.