Participants identified communication across paradigms, not the absence of a single paradigm, as CSCL's main challenge¶

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q2 i? Workshop participants reported difficulty resonating with talks grounded in unfamiliar theoretical frameworks, which they saw as favoring siloed research within CSCL. → Simon 2026

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Simon 2026¶

Simon, S., Şener, B., Greisel, M., Pifarré Turmo, M., Borchers, C., Chernikova, O., Shahrokhian, B., Tajik, E., Sitjà Martín, M., Čarapina, M., Hu, X., & Ataş, A. H. (2026). Toward a Taxonomy: Insights from the 2025 CSCL paradigm building workshop. Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-026-09477-8

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Participants' experiential report in the third workshop group discussion: attendees found it difficult to resonate with talks using "unfamiliar theoretical frameworks and methodologies", which they argued favors siloed research and slows scientific progress and transfer into practice.

"If the strength of the field lies in the diversity of its paradigms, then the main challenge stems from communication across paradigms, not from the lack of a single paradigm."

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