Global Introduction to CSCL

Gerry Stahl

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Preface

This volume

reproduces an attempt by three researchers of computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) to define their field for newcomers. The original essay—entitled “Computer-supported collaborative learning: An historical perspective”—was one chapter in the Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences, which introduced the main concepts in the larger interdisciplinary field of the learning sciences. We wanted our essay to help our fledgling field continue to grow and to reach people around the world in the several cognate fields of CSCL (such as education, psychology, computer science, communication, philosophy).

The present

edition continues that effort by packaging in one book the English original version and translations into major languages of Europe, Asia and Latin America. The translations included here were undertaken by people trained and experienced in CSCL, under my supervision. While I could not check most of the languages myself, I answered questions for the translators and often had another CSCL researcher check the translation for me. Subsequently, Cambridge University Press has translated the entire Handbook into Chinese and Japanese—the chapters on CSCL in those translations have not been included in this volume.

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