Case study in learning sciences (SNU future coyote and poor coyote student project)

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea graduate students (education college programs in educational technology, earth sciences, and physics) enrolled in a learning sciences course extend previous studies of design-based research to a hypothetical tutorial environment centered on computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) to fulfill coursework requirements. The video clip closely parallels literature developed in and edited by R. Keith Sawyer in The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences (Cambridge 2006), among other texts. Because the material presented here is predicated on a *small* section snippet (story line developed over months informally), it is likely difficult to follow for viewers. (A summary is shown below).




Storyline: Poor Coyote, beleaguered for continually failing to catch a roadrunner, is visited by Future Coyote (coyotes of the future are by then well-fed on roadrunners) allegedly watching Poor Coyote's cartoon, a television drama, frittering away energy, to lend help and discovers hundreds, perhaps thousands, of starving fellow coyotes. Future Coyote creates an online community forum to network the starving coyotes (centered on the concept of design-based research). As time progresses the web-board develops problems associated with low clicks, poor turning of ideas, and cumbersome cooperation. Furthermore, the coyotes do not catch a single roadrunner to lend the online forum credibility Determined, Future Coyote extends design-based cooperation by superimposing computer-supported collaborative learning to get the coyotes to interact face-to-face in real-time as a group. In this episode, collaboration hypothetically (e.g., group committal effort) supplants cooperation (e.g., delegation of tasks and effort in isolation) for its merits.

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Education

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• 서운대학교;
• 서울대;
• 사범대학;
• SNU
• coyote;
• education;
• learning
• sciences;
• educational
• technology;
• cscl;
• computer
• supported
• collaborative
• learning;
• design-based
• research