Sustaining Online Collaborative Problem Solving with Math Proposals

Gerry Stahl directs the Virtual Math Teams research project (mathforum.org/vmt) and teaches HCI and CSCL at the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA, where he is an Associate Professor. He studied computer science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Colorado, where he was later a research professor. He was program chair of CSCL 2002, is founding Executive Editor of the "International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning" (ijCSCL.org) and has published a book on his research and theories: "Group Cognition: Computer Support for Building Collaborative Knowledge." His papers and other information are available at his website (www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/gerry).