Tweets from #cscl2011

Word of the CSCL 2011 conference in Hong Kong spread around the world instantaneously, thanks to computer support of this intensive community collaborative learning effort. Tweets, blogs, Facebook postings, Flicker pictures, and video streaming accompanied the many face-to-face presentations and informal interactions during the pre-conference, main conference, and post-conferences in early July. The video feeds more than doubled the number of people able to participate in the conference. Check out the community memory on the conference site at www.isls.org/cscl2011 for links to the postings, pictures, and videos. The conference site also contains revised versions of the complete Proceedings. You can download searchable PDFs, incorporating recent corrections. The three volumes can also be printed on demand through Lulu.com. Like all CSCL and ICLS conference papers, the individual papers will be freely available on the ACM digital library. The conference marked a significant increase in Asian participation in CSCL research, with many presentations from Hong Kong and Singapore researchers, but also from other Asia-Pacific universities. CSCL 2011 attracted over 400 registrants from more than 30 countries, including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Australia, Mainland China, Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong. The presentations were about evenly divided between Europe, Asia, and North America. The impression of participants was one of high quality research, strong scientific presentations and fluency in the conference language of English in almost all sessions. The special theme of the conference was “Connecting computer-supported collaborative learning to policy and practice.” It reflected the long-standing tradition and priority in many of the Asian countries for education policy to support research that contributes to the Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (2011) 6:323–327 DOI 10.1007/s11412-011-9128-6