CSCL workshop participants concluded that building a single shared CSCL paradigm was neither feasible nor desirable, favoring maintained paradigm diversity¶

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q2 i? Across small-group and panel discussions at the 2025 ISLS workshop, participants rejected the goal of a single CSCL paradigm and instead endorsed maintaining paradigm diversity in the field. → Simon 2026

Evidence¶

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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Qualitative outcome of the on-site third workshop group and panel discussion at ISLS 2025, reconstructed from the shared slide deck and participants' memories. Consensus was that "the challenge is to maintain paradigm diversity in the field" rather than adopt one paradigm.

"The previous sections and discussions evidenced consensus across groups and the panel that, instead of aligning CSCL to a normal science with a single paradigm, the challenge is to maintain paradigm diversity in the field."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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