NSF DMTL-2019: NSF Synthesis and Design Workshop on Digitally-Mediated Team Learning 2019 University of Central Florida Orlando, FL, United States, March 30-April 2, 2019 |
Conference website | https://www.digital-learning-teams.com/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nsfdmtl2019 |
Submission deadline | January 31, 2019 |
The NSF DMTL-2019 workshop will convene researchers, educators, and practitioners to advance transformative pedagogical approaches for technology-enhanced team learning within Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines. The workshop will advance the utilization and efficacy of next-generation learning architectures through a focus on instructional technologies that facilitate digitally-mediated team-based learning. Interdisciplinary science and engineering researchers, developers, and educators will identify near-term and future research directions to facilitate adaptable digital environments for highly-effective, rewarding, and scalable team-based learning. An emphasis of the workshop includes the personalization of collaborations among diverse learners by automating the identification and utilization of learners’ efficacies and knowledge gaps to create complementary collaborative teams that maximize avenues for peer teaching and learning. The workshop advances both national and societal goals of improving STEM instruction to develop a stronger national STEM workforce, while uniting experts in Data Analytics, Data Mining, and Instructional Design & Technology. Dissemination of the findings from the workshop will include social, traditional, and popular media outlets, and the outcomes of the workshop will benefit researchers, educators, and practitioners from multiple disciplines, while informing digitally-enhanced learner-centered approaches to learning.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. A position paper of up to two pages in length should be submitted. Papers will be reviewed by the program committee for consideration for one of 50 travel stipends available to the conference. Preferred deadline for stipend consideration is December 15, 2018 and final deadline is January 31, 2019.
List of Tracks
- Track 1: Facilitating Team Learning via Online Technologies
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Scope: Design and alignment of online instructional environments for engaging, observing, and assessing STEM design and problem-solving teams in-situ and in real-time.
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Track Co-Chairs: Ronald F. DeMara, Tian Tian, and TBD.
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Perspectives: Student-Facing and Instructor-Facing.
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Track 2: Personalizing Collaborative Learning through Analytics
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Scope: Utilizing offline data-mining of assessments for automated optimization of team composition and sustained back-end reporting of learning outcomes. Collecting and leveraging of real-time observations of team members’ participation, dynamically identifying learners’ needs/ZPD, restructuring learner cohorts, and generating instructor/learning guidance on-demand.
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Track Co-Chairs: Joseph E. Beck, Samuel Spiegel, and TBD.
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Perspectives: Instructor-Facing and Institution-Facing.
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Track 3: Supporting Digital Teams using Active Pedagogical Strategies
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Scope: Underpinning team activity in STEM class settings via cognitive science. Exploring andragogical and pedagogical methods and strategies such as: Most Valuable Peer (MVP) Protocols, Lurker/Lone Wolf team interactions, and Intrinsic/Extrinsic Incentivization leading to actionable lesson plans.
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Track Co-Chairs: Richard Hartshorne, Eloy Hernandez, and TBD.
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Perspectives: Instructor-Facing.
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Track 4: Empowering Equitable Participation through DMTL
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Scope: Fostering collaborative digital learning approaches that broaden participation among underserved and underrepresented populations. Investigating the role of Socially-Agnostic participation: neutral from observation (no preconceptions) and also neutral from some aspects of active projection (reduced dominance from interpersonal tone).
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Track Co-Chairs: Laurie O. Campbell, Zhongzhou Chen, and Melissa Dagley.
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Perspectives: Student-Facing.
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Committee
Program Committee
- Dr. Ronald F. DeMara, University of Central Florida
- Dr. Joseph E. Beck, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Dr. Laurie O. Campbell, University of Central Florida
- Dr. Richard Hartshorne, University of Central Florida
- Dr. Samuel Spiegel, Colorado School of Mines
- Dr. Zhongzhou Chen, University of Central Florida
- Dr. Melissa Dagley, University of Central Florida
- Dr. Eloy Hernandez, University of Central Florida
- Dr. Tian Tian, University of Central Florida
Venue
The workshop will be held during March 31 - April 2, 2019 in the Morgridge International Reading Center at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Adrian Tatulian at jcmaxwell@knights.ucf.edu.