Workshop 7: "Cooperative Knowledge Spaces for Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Engineering"

Organisers: Sabine Cikic (TU Berlin / MuLF), Sabina Jeschke (University of Stuttgart), Nadine Ludwig (TU Berlin / MuLF), Uwe Sinha (TU Berlin / MuLF)

Workshop overview:
The collaborative and distributed usage of resources such as remote experiments and virtual laboratories is highly important especially for learning and research scenarios in the fields of mathematics, natural sciences and engineering. Integrated into cooperative knowledge spaces, those resources can be provided within a unified environment and be combined with communication tools and content repositories. Thus, an open access to experimental setups can be achieved. However, only few implementations of cooperative knowledge spaces have been deployed so far and technical requirements as well as usability issues are still to be discussed.

Who should attend:
We encourage contributions from different backgrounds, especially CSCW/CSCL developers and practitioners, researchers and teachers of mathematics, natural sciences and engineering, developers of games and other types of virtual worlds.

The workshop will be a half-day event (can be extended if needed) and will be open to a maximum of 10 participants.

More info at: http://www.mulf.tu-berlin.de/ecscw07.html

Dissemination:
The results of the workshop will be published in the "New Media in Education and Research Series" by Technische Universit‰t Berlin, Germany (eds. Hendricks, Jeschke, Thomsen).

Submissions:
Short position papers (1-2 pages) should be submitted to cikic[AT]math.tu-berlin.de by June 29th 2007. Acceptance notifications will be sent by July 9th 2007.