Learning Technologies Ph.D. students Xinran Zhu and Hong Shui, along with LIL Co-Director Bodong Chen, won Best Student Paper at the 29th International Conference on Computers in Education. Their paper, Designing Support for Productive Social Interaction and Knowledge Co-construction in Collaborative Annotation, introduces a general scaffolding framework of participation roles to support collaborative learning activities in online classes. A part of the Collaborative Annotation in College Classrooms Project, their study used a web annotation tool, Hypothesis, to pilot the framework in a fully online undergraduate course in Fall 2020. Social network analysis and content analysis of students’ annotation data were conducted to examine how the framework facilitated social interaction and knowledge co-construction in the online class.
Their paper was also nominated for Best Research Paper.