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The CAMPWS Collaboratory: A Space for Research, Teaching, Learning, and Problem-Solving
Bertram C. BruceLibrary & Information Science
U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Roles for the CAMPWS collaboratory
• Develop tools to support individual research as well as collaborative research (III.2)
• Enhance opportunities for minorities and women in research and science learning (III.2.1)
• Support the education mission (III.2.2)• Provide a platform for knowledge transfer
(III.2.3)
Outline
1) Why collaboratories?a) What is a collaboratory?b) Human-computer interaction (a history)
2) Overview of plansa) CAMPWS collaboratoryb) Community inquiry labsc) Research on collaboratory use
3) Your questions and suggestions
1a) What is a collaboratory?
Today's challenges require • large, multidisciplinary teams• complex instrumentation• vast amounts of data from multiple sources in
multiple formatsaddressed by• new information & communication
technologies
A center without walls…
in which the nation's researchers can perform their research without regard to geographical location – interacting with colleagues, accessing instrumentation, sharing data and computational resources, and accessing information in digital libraries
–Kouzes, Myers, & Wulf (1996)
Examples
• Windows to the Universe – SPARC instruments, computer models, real-time data, and theories
• Collaborate! – alternative to the "adversarial academy"
• The Collaboratory Project – enables schools, museums, libraries and other cultural institutions to share information
• Inquiry Page – Inquiry Unit Generator, contacts with other teachers
• Urban Legends Reference Pages – track unlikely stories that appear in the media
Attributes of collaboratories
• Shared inquiry – common goals, problems, issues
• Intentionality – recognized as a joint venture • Active participation/contribution • Access to shared data, articles, and tools • Technologies – instruments; symbol systems• Boundary-crossings – bridge across geography,
time, institutions, disciplines – Lunsford & Bruce, "Collaboratories: Working
Together on the Web"
Questions about collaboratories
• How can new technologies reduce coordination costs and provide more effective ways to collaborate?
• How do new modes of collaboration support inquiry in diverse communities?
• How do knowledge, technology, and community co-evolve?
1b) Human-computer interaction(a history)
New digital tools
Computer-mediated work
Ubiquitous computing
Collaboratory model
2a) CAMPWS collaboratory
Access to…• tools (data aggregation & visualization,
remote instrumentation, …)• information (digital libraries, e-
publishing, curricula, databases, images, …)
• people (email, blogs, teleconferences, groupware, …)
Profiles (people, groups, projects, …)
Repository model
contribution via web form
URL of stored entry
database of entries
Stone soup (Robins, 1999)
Next steps: Collaboratory tools
• Lab notebook for water purification device• Water quality simulation tool• Digital library• Bibliography tool• Profile management; social agent system• Extended search: VisIT, VIBE, IKNOW• Web logs (blogs)• Distributed Inquiry Page
Collaboratory in context
• A cycle of asking, investigating, creating, discussing, and reflecting; each question leads to further questions
• Dialogue (two-way communication)• Connect to life• Active learning based on the learner's
purpose
2b) Community inquiry labs
• Resources for inquiry teaching & learning
• Support for communities
• Tools for everyday problem-solving (personal websites, to-do lists, events calendars, …)
A cycle: The Inquiry Page
Dialgue: Two-way communication
• Cholera kills tens of thousands of people/year
• Rita Colwell: copepods harbor the bacterium; 200-500x larger
• a folded sari cloth can remove the plankton
• 65 Bangladesh villages; cholera reduced by half
• effective as nylon filters• less diarrhea, cheap and
convenient, easily adopted
Connected to life
Active learning
Inquiry involves people as active learners. Students in inquiry classrooms may experience anything from running a business, to writing stories, to growing and hatching chickens.
Example partners
• Living on the Prairie • Paseo Boricua• Sisternet• Corrales, New Mexico• East St. Louis Action
Research Project• Urbana Middle School
• Marshall Islands• U Chicago Lab School• K-12 and college courses• National Science Digital
Library• Distributed Knowledge
Research Collaborative
Surface water quality unit
2c) Research & evaluation
Design through use or participatory inquiry aims to respond to human needs by democratic processes. Through creation of content, contributions to interactive elements, and incorporation into practice, users are not merely recipients of technology, but participate actively in its ongoing development.
User groups
researchersuniversity facultyuniversity studentsteachersK-12 studentsscience & nature centers
librarianscommunity members people in industry policy makers
Design through use techniques
• User interviews• Workshops• Inquiry group meetings• Retreats• Email/bboard discussion• Feedback forms
Evaluation methods
• Front-end evaluation (needs assessment)
• User and usability research• Participatory design• Situated evaluation• Online evaluation tools• Social network analysis• Summative evaluation
Co-evolution
Knowledge Technology
Community
3) Your questions and suggestions
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