Studying Virtual Math Teams (Gerry Stahl's eLibrary, #4)
Description
Beginning in 2002, a group of researchers and online-math-education-service providers began the Virtual Math Teams (VMT) Project. The mission of the VMT Project is to provide a new opportunity for students to engage in mathematical discourse. There are three primary goals in this project:
· 1. As service providers, we want to provide a stimulating online service for use by student teams from around the world.
· 2. As educational-technology designers, we want to develop an online environment that will effectively foster student mathematical discourse and collaborative knowledge building.
· 3. As researchers, we want to understand the nature of team interaction during mathematical discourse within this new environment.
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Person
Gerry Stahl's professional research is in the theory and analysis of CSCL (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning). In 2006 Stahl published "Group Cognition: Computer Support for Building Collaborative Knowledge" (MIT Press) and launched the "International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning". In 2009 he published "Studying Virtual Math Teams" (Springer), in 2013 "Translating Euclid," in 2015 a longitudinal study of math cognitive development in "Constructing Dynamic Triangles Together" (Cambridge U.), and in 2021 "Theoretical Investigations: Philosophical Foundations of Group Cognition" (Springer).
All his work outside of these academic books is published for free in volumes of essays at Smashwords (or at Lulu as paperbacks at minimal printing cost).
Gerry Stahl earned his BS in math and science at MIT. He earned a PhD in continental philosophy and social theory at Northwestern University, conducting his research at the Universities of Heidelberg and Frankfurt. He later earned a PhD in computer science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is now Professor Emeritus at the College of Computation and Informatics at Drexel University in Philadelphia. His website--containing all his publications, materials on CSCL and further information about his work--is at http://GerryStahl.net.
