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Enhancing Collaborative Learning with BSCL Software

Learn about the innovative BSCL software developed by Wolfgang Appelt's team, enabling shared workspaces, user management, and discussion forums for effective collaboration in educational settings. Explore its features and successful field tests in schools across Europe.

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Enhancing Collaborative Learning with BSCL Software

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  1. Wolfgang Appelt • FH Institute for Applied Information Technology - FIT (about 120 people, St. Augustin near Bonn) • Working in CSCW group (about 35 people) • Head of cooperation support for distributed teams and organisations department (6 persons + students) • Engaged in national / European research & development projects • Short term projects for customers from industry / government • BSCW Shared Workspace System usually development basis • Gerry has worked in our group in 2001/2002 on ITCOLE project • BSCL (Basic Support for Collaborative Learning) developed in ITCOLE VMT CSCL Workshop June 2004

  2. Pedagogical Model of BSCL • Progressive Inquiry Theory (Paavola et. al., Proceedings CSCL 2002) • Knowledge is created by students in discursive mode • Students classify their contributions (problem, comment, help request ...) • Knowledge building process supported by computer usage VMT CSCL Workshop June 2004

  3. BSCL - Basic Support for Collaborative Learning • BSCL Features • Creation of Shared Workspaces for courses and groups • User management (registration, assignment to courses and groups) • Upload of documents, images, spreadsheets, etc. • Discussion forums with mandatory thinking types • Event and notification features • Document management features (versioning, locking, ...) • Email integration • Multilingual interface (English, Italian, Greek, Dutch, German, Finnish) VMT CSCL Workshop June 2004

  4. BSCL User Interface • BSCL • Software VMT CSCL Workshop June 2004

  5. Field Tests in Schools • Two series of field tests in schools • January to June 2002 • October 2002 to April 2003 (with revised version of Synergeia) • Teachers were trained/supported before and during field tests • Pedagogical model of Progressive Inquiry • Usage of Synergeia system • Ca. 35 schools, 85 teachers and 1,500 students • Primary and secondary level • Age between 6 and 20 • Finland, Greece, Italy and The Netherlands • Art, biology, grammar, history, literature, philosophy, physics ... • Several joint projects between locally separated schools VMT CSCL Workshop June 2004

  6. Current Status • BSCL available at http://bscl.fit.fraunhofer.de • BSCL Server (over 1200 teachers and 4500 students registered) • Software available for download • Upgrade to latest BSCW version under development • Currently used in Venus transit project (BSCW, not BSCL) • organised by scientific magazine of German TV • more than 700 school classes involved • replay of historical experiment VMT CSCL Workshop June 2004

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