US-Finland Planning Visit: Transformed Social Interaction and Telecollaboration for Collaborative Learning

在当前的教育环境中，注重在线互动的学生教育体验变得越来越重要。视频通信和技术的新技术扩展了教学环境，远远超出了典型的视频聊天应用程序，并有可能增强教师-学生和点对点教学模式。该项目是加州大学圣巴巴拉分校和芬兰两所大学的研究人员之间的一项新合作，旨在探索在学习和教育背景下开发和使用经过改造的社会互动和远程协作技术。合作的重点是创建一个新的学者社区，确定关键的研究问题和相关问题，分享与这项工作相关的特定专业知识和经验，并为具有明确研究目标的合作计划。该项目将涉及一系列会议，这些会议将促进在协作学习技术研究方面的新伙伴关系。来自美国的研究人员将包括计算机科学和媒体艺术与技术专业的两名研究生和一名本科生，以及教育专业的两名研究生和一名本科生。芬兰的大学将包括一些学生和研究人员，除了核心教师参与。将在芬兰举行为期一周的会议，在各小组之间分享资料和出版物。后续电话会议将提供机会，继续完善成果，并制定潜在研究项目的项目说明。

Educational experiences for students that focus on online interactions are becoming increasingly important in current educational contexts. New technologies for video communication and technologies expand the pedagogical contexts well beyond the typical video chat applications and have the potential to enhance both instructor-student and peer-to-peer models of teaching. This project is a new collaboration between researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara and two universities in Finland to explore the development and use of transformed social interaction and tele-collaboration technologies in the context of learning and education. The focus of the collaboration is to create a new community of scholars, identify key research questions and relevant issues, share particular expertise and experience related to the effort and plan for a collaboration with well-articulated research objectives.This project will involve a series of meetings that will catalyze the new partnership in research on collaborative learning technologies. The researchers from the US will include two graduate and one undergraduate student from computer science and media arts and technology and two graduate and one undergraduate student from education. The Finnish universities will include several students and researchers in addition to the core faculty involved. A one-week conference in Finland will be proceeded with sharing of information and publications among the groups. Follow-up teleconferencing meetings will provide the opportunities to continue to refine the outcomes and develop project descriptions of potential research projects.