ICLS 2000 Proceedings

A Community of Educators Using Online Self-Organization to Develop a Process for Creating Technology-Integrated Instructional Materials

Elizabeth Wellman, Maya Creedman and Jana Flores
Center X, GSE&IS
2030 Moore Hall, UCLA,
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Tel: 310.206.2969 Fax: 310.206.5369
Email: ewellman@ucla.edu; creedman@ucla.edu; jsflores@ucla.edu

Abstract: The Executive Office of the California History-Social Science Project and the Technology Projects office of Center X at UCLA have developed a project in which statewide history teachers form an online, self generating, problem solving community for the purposes of rewriting existing history and social science curricula for the integration of technology to support student historical thinking and understanding. Participants focus on collaboration and the problem solving process of instructional design in an online (Nexus) collaborative environment. The end product for the participants are several units of practice which reflect historical thinking and understanding and the use of technology to support those processes.

Keywords: distributed learning environments, learning communities, professional development, technology planning

Preferred Citation Format:
Wellman, E., Creedman, M., & Flores, J. (2000). A Community of Educators Using Online Self-Organization to Develop a Process for Creating Technology-Integrated Instructional Materials. In B. Fishman & S. O'Connor-Divelbiss (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (pp. 280-281). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

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