The field of CSCL has always been multi-disciplinary, providing fertile soil for productive exchange between disciplines such as computer science, education, psychology, sociology, and many other related fields. It is imperative for the CSCL community to actively engage in productive communication with neighboring disciplines, crossing disciplinary boundaries and fostering a comprehensive understanding of collaborative learning and technologies.
At its 30th anniversary, the CSCL 2025 conference seeks contributions at the intersection of collaboration, learning, and computing:
The ISLS Annual Meeting 2025 theme is intended to
- Recognize global, environmental and social crises, but also to emphasize the optimistic view for envisioning new solutions to global crises.
- Honor teachers, students, citizens, and researchers as active transformative agents or world-makers of the future.
We invite the ISLS community to embrace utopias, agency, imagination, speculation, and futures thinking, as central aspects of education and educational research. The theme engages participants in reflecting on and theorizing personal, social, and networked aspects of world making and discussing advances of the field and planning future ways of expanding societal and global impact of the learning sciences.
The theme also emphasizes how the learning sciences are concerned with research and development of tools, practices, and environments for knowledge-creating learning. Creative knowledge practices engage learners in knowledge-building inquiries, co-designing, co-inventing, and co-making complex artifacts, and taking part in extended ecosocial innovation projects. By this, the theme calls for building research-practice partnerships which focus on solving problems of practice and tailoring investigations according to the practitioners’ needs rather than mere academic interests.
Important dates
September 26th, 2024
Call for full and short papers, posters & symposia open
November 16, 2024
Deadline extended to November 22, 2024
Early February, 2025
Notifications of acceptance and revisions
Late February, 2025
Final submissions for publication due (camera ready)
June 10–13, 2025
ISLS Annual Meeting: International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) & International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL)