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First attempt to create a graduate program
Jan Hawkins and Roy Pea unsuccessfully tried to establish a joint program between Bank Street College and the New School for Social Research called "Psychology, Education, and Technology" (PET). -
Institute for Learning Sciences
Roger Schank helped start the Institute for Learning Sciences at Northwestern University. -
The Journal of the Learning Sciences published
Janet Kolodner was founding editor. -
The first degree program
The first Learning Science degree program is at Northwestern University and Roy Pea is its first director. -
First International Conference of the LS
First International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). No formal society nor publication venue for Learning Sciences existed at this time. -
CSCL workshop
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) becomes a distinct enough strand of research that it holds its own workshop -
CSCL conference
CSCL holds its own conference. Scholars consistently appeared at both ICLS and CSCL conferences. Activity in one conference was in no way mutually exclusive from activity in the other, yet contingents were eventually drawn more to one community over the other. -
International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
Given deep overlaps and crossover between CSCL and ICLS a formal society was created that oversaw both conference series. -
The International Journal of CSCL
The International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning was established. Gerry Stahl was founding editor.
