ISLS 2026 Agenda

8:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 2500

Socio-Emotional & Group Dynamics

Five short papers examine the emotional and social side of collaboration, from team functioning and leadership in pediatric medical simulations to regulating epistemic emotions in higher- versus lower-performing CSCL groups. Other talks cover teacher learning on WhatsApp, a fifth-grade SEL digital curriculum, and boundary-crossing STEM competencies in global informal programs.

Identity, Belonging & Learner Agency in a talk

5 talks

10:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 2500

Role of AI in CSCL

Five short papers interrogate AI's evolving roles in collaborative knowledge work, including students' experience of AI as a creative collaborator and a typological framework for AI's epistemic authority in Knowledge Building. Additional talks examine children's epistemic agency in AI science eBooks, activity theory for human-AI teaming, and a three-year cross-community design study.

Identity, Belonging & Learner Agency in a talk

5 talks

4:15 PM

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Poster · Online

CSCL Virtual Posters

A virtual poster session on computer-supported collaborative learning, featuring AI as a collaborative partner, adaptive support, and feedback literacy across peer, AI, and teacher sources. Methods span meta-analysis, scoping reviews, multimodal and physiological data on teamwork, teacher stress, and argumentative discourse.

Identity, Belonging & Learner Agency in a talk

13 talks

Poster · Outdoors

CSCL Posters - Wednesday Poster Session (In-Person)

In-person CSCL poster session dominated by generative AI in collaborative learning, from teacher-in-the-loop essay scoring and AI lesson-planning to constrained GenAI for deeper learning and agency. Other posters cover multimodal and NLP methods for assessing collaboration, conversational agents in shared reading, and AI tools in arts learning.

Identity, Belonging & Learner Agency in a talk

39 talks