CAP: CSCL 2017 Making a Difference: Prioritizing Equity and Access in CSCL Doctoral Consortium and Early Career Workshops

网络学习和未来学习技术计划资助的努力将有助于展望下一代学习技术，并促进我们对人们在技术丰富的环境中如何学习的了解。网络学习履约协助方案项目通过改善技术基础设施、人力资本和其他方式，建设网络学习领域的研究和开发能力。计算机支持的协作学习会议是关于技术如何支持线上和线下协作学习的首要会议。该项目支持博士联盟和会议上的早期职业研讨会，允许早期职业学者接受来自计算机科学和学习研究的知名网络学习研究人员的指导。该项目支持来自美国大学的高级研究生和新教师参加费城CSCL 2017会议的能力建设活动。参与者是通过竞争过程挑选出来的，以确保他们的工作具有很高的智力价值。该项目不仅通过向年轻的美国研究人员提供指导机会来增加能力，还支持与其他国家的同行建立联系(这些国家的参与得到了本国政府的支持)。此外，会议的主题是研究以技术为基础的协作学习的公平性和可及性，这将有助于指导与会者和导师的选择。因此，该项目还将提供关于如何更好地理解和设计帮助所有人学习的系统的重要培训，这是MOOC以及在线或移动协作学习领域的一个紧迫问题。

The Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies Program funds efforts that will help envision the next generation of learning technologies and advance what we know about how people learn in technology-rich environments. Cyberlearning CAP projects build capacity for research and development in the field of cyberlearning by improving technical infrastructure, human capital, and in other ways. The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning conference is the premier conference on how technologies can support collaborative learning, both online and offline. This project supports a Doctoral Consortium and an Early Career Workshop at the conference which allows early career scholars to receive mentoring from established cyberlearning researchers from both computer science and learning research.This project supports travel for advanced graduate students and new faculty from U.S. universities to attend the capacity-building activities at the CSCL 2017 conference in Philadelphia. Participants are selected through a competitive process that ensures high intellectual merit in their work. The project not only increases capacity by providing mentoring opportunities to young US researchers, but also supports building connections with peers in other countries (whose participation is supported by their own governments). In addition, the theme of the conference, which will be used to help guide selection of participants and mentors, is research on equity and access in collaborative technology-based learning. Thus the project will also provide vital training on how to better understand and design systems that help all people learn, which is a pressing problem in the area of MOOCs and online or mobile collaborative learning.