Title :
CSCL for community building and digital equity
Author :
Chou, C. Candace
Author_Institution :
Learning Technol. Program, St. Thomas Univ., Fredericton, NB, Canada
Abstract :
The Minnesota Educators and Leaders Technology Initiative (MELTI) contributes to community building and digital equity through computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) activities and other project activities. The CSCL activities that include asynchronous, synchronous, and video conferencing are designed to address issues of integration faced by the MELTI participating schools which have high percentage of minority students. The notions of social inclusion and technology literacy play a key role in the CSCL activities design for the purpose of overcoming barriers to digital equity.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; groupware; teleconferencing; Minnesota Educators and Leaders Technology Initiative; asynchronous conferencing; community building; computer-supported collaborative learning; digital equity; social inclusion; synchronous conferencing; technology literacy; video conferencing; Buildings; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Education; Educational institutions; Employment; Humans; Space technology; Telecommunication computing; Videoconference;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2005. ICALT 2005. Fifth IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2338-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2005.96