Carl Bereiter: Professor in the Centre for Applied Cognitive Science and the Department of Applied Psychology and a Principal Investigator on the CSILE Project.

Curtis Bonk: Professor in the School of Education at the University of Indiana.  He developed "smartweb", an online environment for mentoring undergraduate educational psychology students.  He is co-editor of the book Electronic Collaborators: Learner-Centered Technologies for Literacy, Apprenticeship, and Discourse (Erlbaum, 1998).  He has recently proposed a ten-level model for online learning.

Amy Bruckman: Associate Professor at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, and a member of the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability (GVU) Center. Researches into online communities and education, and is the founder of the Electronic Learning Communities (ELC) research group.

Kenneth Bruffee: Professor of English and Director of the Scholars Program and the Honors Academy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York; directed a FIPSE-funded Institute in Peer Tutoring and Collaborative Learning in 1979-82. Author of Collaborative Learning : Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge (John Hopkins University Press, 1999).

Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic:  Was Professor and Founding Chair in Information Systems at the Faculty of Management, University of Western Sydney, now at UNSW.  She has published in the fields of groupware technologies, computer supported organisational knowledge sharing and management, computer-mediated communications, and Web-enhanced cooperative learning and teaching.

Alexander Chizhik:  Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, at the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University.  Interested in equity in collaborative group learning and assessment, and how to overcome differential participation due to relative peer and academic status.

Derrick Cogburn: Assistant Professor of Information and African Studies at the University of Michigan School of Information and the Center for Afro-American and African Studies.  Research interests include the socio-technical factors that influence computer supported collaborative learning and knowledge work between developed and developing countries.

Allan Collins: Research Professor at Boston College and Northwestern University.  Best known in psychology for his work on semantic memory and mental models, in artificial intelligence for his work on plausible reasoning and intelligent tutoring systems, and in education for his work on inquiry teaching, cognitive apprenticeship, situated learning, epistemic games, and systemic validity in educational testing.

Betty Collis:  Professor of Tele-Learning at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.  Prolific author of over 600 publications in the area of learning technologies and a lifetime honorary member of ISTE.

Dianne Conrad: Assistant Professor at the University of New Brunswick.  Research interests include community and social presence in distance education, group interaction in mediated learning, and the design, implementation and evaluation of online learning programs.

Pierre Dillenbourg: Professor in pedagogy and new training technologies at l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (EPFL).  Has presented and published extensively on different aspects of collaborative learning and the use of advanced learning technologies.

Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld: Research Professor at Humanistic Informatics at Aalborg University. She is the coordinator of several research groups on distributed learning in Denmark and has co-authored several books and articles in this topic. 

John M. Dirkx: Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Program in the Department of Educational Administration, College of Education at Michigan State University. His primary area of interest is teaching and learning within contexts of adult and postsecondary education, particularly within work-related learning.

Stephen Downes: Senior Research Officer with the National Research Council of Canada in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.  Involved in research and development in e-learning, and prolific author of articles, seminars and workshops, with an excellent website covering many aspects  of e-learning.

Daniel C. Edelson: Associate Professor of Learning Sciences and Computer Science. He conducts research on the use of computers to reform education. His primary research focus is the design of computer programs to support active, open-ended learning. He has developed scientific investigation tools for learners, computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments, and case-based teaching environments.

Yrjö Engeström: Director of the Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research at the University of Helsinki and Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego.  His work is anchored in cultural-historical activity theory. His recent research has been focused on learning and formation of distributed expertise in work teams.

Richard M. Felder:  Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, and author of many articles on cooperative learning.

Gerhard Fischer: Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and member of the Institute of Cognitive Science. He is currently directing the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design, and is Chair of CSCL 2002.  Research includes the development of a framework for dynamic information spaces for the support of collaborative learning and design. 

Annita Fjuk: Senior researcher at Telenor Research and Development, and associated professor at the university of Oslo. Her research focus is on flexibility in terms of social interactions and collaboration patterns as well as in terms of the individual learner's access to services and solutions. She addresses these issues through the use of socio-cultural theories, with particular attention on activity theory.

Charles Goodwin: His research focuses on many aspects of language and interaction, including the co-construction of meaning, participation frameworks, the ethnography of science, aphasia as a social process, the social organization of perception through language use, as well as discourse in the professions.

Charles R. Graham: Assistant Professor of instructional psychology and technology at Brigham Young University, with a focus on distance teaching and learning. His current research interests include the study of online collaborative learning and computer-mediated learning teams. 

Mark Guzdial:  Director of the Collaborative Software Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology.  Has published in the areas of educational computing, software-realized scaffolding, collaborative multimedia, and construction and design environments for students.

Kai Hakkarainen:  Researcher at the University of Helsinki and prominent member of the Centre for Research On Networked Learning and Knowledge Building

Rogers Hall: Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include mathematics education, comparative studies of mathematical activity in school and work settings, and (most generally) the organization and development of representational practices in technical and scientific work.

Linda Harasim: Active for over a decade in researching educational applications of computer networking. Designed, implemented, and evaluated networking applications in Canada, the U.S., and Latin America.

Judi Harris:  Professor at the College of Education at the University of Texas.  Her focus is on teaching teachers how to use the Internet in the classroom.  Has written a number of books on this topic.

Roger Hartley:  Professor and Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Leeds in the UK.  Primarily interested in developing and evaluating pedagogies for computer based learning that exploit multimedia and collaborative methods within information rich environments.

Giyoo Hatano: Professor of Psychology and Learning Sciences at the Human Development & Education Program of the University of the Air, where he moved in April 2001 from Keio University.  Most of his recent research has been concerned with conceptual development, expertise, and literacy/numeracy acquisition.

Starr Roxanne Hiltz: Distinguished Professor of Computer and Information Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology; author of many books and articles on teaching and learning online and the virtual classroom.

Chris Hoadley: designs, builds, and studies ways for computers to enhance thinking and learning. His research focuses on collaborative technologies and computer support for cooperative learning.

Vivien Hodgson:  Senior Lecturer in Management Learning at Lancaster University in the UK.  Interested in the development of Open and Distance Learning courses within management education and the way technology has come to be used for supporting more open or ‘flexible’ approaches to management education.

Ulrich Hoppe: Professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen and Director of the Collaborative Learning in Intelligent Distributed Environments Project .

Akiko Inaba: Research Associate at Osaka University.  Has published widely on Interaction Analysis and many other aspects of CSCL.

Albert L. Ingram: Associate Professor of Instructional Technology at Kent State University, where he teaches a variety of courses in instructional design and technology. He has published papers in a variety of journals, including Educational Technology, the Journal of Educational Technology Systems, Educational Technology Research and Development, the Journal of Educational Computing Research, and Computers in the Schools.

David W. Johnson: Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota where he holds the Emma M. Birkmaier Professorship in Educational Leadership;  Co-Director of the Cooperative Learning Center. Past-editor of the American Educational Research Journal. Published over 350 research articles and book chapters, and the author of over 40 books.

Roger T. Johnson: Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota. Public school teaching experience includes teaching in kindergarten through eighth grade in self-contained classrooms, open schools, nongraded situations, cottage schools, and departmentalized (science) schools.

Yasmin Kafai: Associate Professor of Learning and Instruction at the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also directs the KIDS research project. He has written numerous articles on learning technologies and environments for young children in the fields of education, developmental psychology, computer and information studies.

Greg Kearsley: Currently an independent consultant specializing in online education but has taught at many universities including Nova Southeastern University and George Washington University. He has designed online courses for Walden Institute as well as the MEPP program at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Kearsley received his PhD in educational psychology from the University of Alberta in 1978 and has written many books and articles about technology and education.

Edward R. Kemery: Associate Professor of Management at the University of Baltimore.  Teaches courses on groups and management and has written on online collaboration from a HR standpoint.  

Kinshuk:  Associate Professor at Massey University in New Zealand.  Prolific reviewer and organizer of conferences in the area of advanced learning technologies.  Research interests include educational systems supporting cognitive skills acquisition.

William Klemm: Professor of Neuroscience at Texas A&M University.  Research areas include brainstem mechanisms of behavior, alcohol, learning/memory, chemical signals, human cognition and EEG.

Janet L. Kolodner:  Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, on the steering committee of the EduTech Institute, and Editor in Chief of of The Journal of the Learning Sciences. Her research work investigates issues in learning, memory, and problem solving.

Timothy Koschmann:  Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Education at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. His research involves studying how people learn in collaborative settings.

Agnes Kukulska-Hulme: Lecturer at the Open University in the UK.  Primarily interested in users' mental models of multimedia on the Web, and how websites communicate their cultural identity.

Minna Lakkala: Doctoral student at the University of Helsinki.  She has a background in psychology and computer science with extensive experience of teachers' professional development and their training in the educational use of information and communication technologies.  

Vic Lally: Lecturer in Educational Studies at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Research interests are focused on teaching and learning in networked collaborative environments; at present investigating multimethod analyses of learning interactions.

Tom Landauer: Professor of Psychology at the University of Colorado and President of Knowledge Analysis Technologies; interested in the application of Latent Semantic Analysis to collaborative learning.

Jean Lave: Professor in the Geography Department at Berkeley.  Much of her work, both in ethnography and in social theory, concentrates on the re-conceiving of learning, learners, and educational institutions in terms of social practice.

Marcia Linn: Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California at Berkeley (UCB) researches the teaching and learning of science and technology, gender equity, and the design of technological learning environments.

Lasse Lipponen:  Researcher at the University of Helsinki and prominent member of the Centre for Research On Networked Learning and Knowledge Building

Robin Mason:  Professor with the Open University in the UK.  She is a specialist in the research and practice of online teaching and learning, and was one of the early pioneers in developing the medium of computer conferencing for distance education, and completed her PhD - one of the very first on the subject - in 1989. Since then she has published prolifically on the web, in journal articles and in five books.

Roberta S. Matthews:  Provost of Brooklyn College at the City University of New York.  Her publications on learning communities and collaborative learning include "Enriching Teaching and Learning Through Learning Communities" in Teaching & Learning in the Community College (Jossey-Bass, 1993) and "Collaborative Learning: Creating Knowledge with Students" in Teaching on Solid Ground (Jossey-Bass, 1995).

David McConnell:  Professor in Education at the University of Sheffield in the UK.  Particularly interested in networked, open and distance learning, and author of Implementing Computer Supported Cooperative Learning (Kogan Page, 2000).

Barbara J. Millis: Director of Faculty Development at the US Air Force Academy. Has publishes many articles related to Collaborative Learning including "Helping Faculty Build Learning Communities Through Cooperative Groups" and "Fulfilling the Promise of the 'Seven Principles' Through Cooperative Learning".

Naomi Miyake: Professor at the School of Computer and Cognitive Sciences at Chukyo University.

Hanni Muukkonen: Researcher at the Centre for networked learning and knowledge building in the Department of Psychology at the University of Helsinki, studying progressive inquiry processes in higher education.  She has been a primary force in the development of server software for computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL).

John Nash: Director of Evaluation at the Stanford Learning Laboratory, Stanford University. He has written extensively on theory-anchored evaluation applied to CSCL and his research interests are in the areas of evaluation of complex initiatives and the role of technology in education reform. 

Kent L. Norman: Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. His interests are in models of human judgment and decision making and in human problem solving.  Current research is on the problem of human/computer interaction and the development of a theory of cognitive control of computers using menu selection as a tool and interfaces for interactive and collaborative educational environments.

Hiroaki Ogata:  Associate Professor at the University of Tokushima in Japan, and Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, actively researching in many aspects of CSCL and CSCW; Steering and Program Committee member for CSCL 2003.

Jason Ohler: Director of Educational Technology for the University of Alaska.  Is a long time advocate on online education. Is the founder of one of the first online journals about distance education, The Online Chronicle of Distance Education and Communication, and is a noted author, Thinking about Technology.

Ron Oliver: Associate Professor at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. His current research projects involve explorations and investigations of effective on-line  teaching and learning in higher education. This research involves designing, developing and implementing on-line materials and tools and evaluations of learning outcomes and implementation issues.

Claire O’Malley: Reader in Psychology at the University of Nottingham.  Research interests are in the application of psychological theories and methods to the design and use of computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments.

Rena Palloff:  Assistant Professor at John F. Kennedy University.  Consults to and facilitates community groups and collaboratives interested in systems change work. In addition, Rena is Managing Partner in Crossroads Consulting Group. Since 1994 with Keith Pratt she has conducted pioneering research and training in the emerging areas of electronic group facilitation, face-to-face electronic community building, distance learning, and management and supervision. Their work has focused on the design, implementation, and delivery of effective distance education programs.

Ted Panitz: Professor of Mathematics and Engineering at Cape Cod Community College.  Has published extensively in Cooperative Learning for over a decade.

Roy D. Pea: Professor of Education and the Learning Sciences at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning.   He also serves as Director for Teachscape, a company he co-founded that provides comprehensive K-12 teacher professional development services incorporating web-based video case studies of standards-based teaching and communities of learners.

Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont: Professor of Psychology at the University of Neuchâtel.  Head of the Psychology and Educational Sciences faculty, and a leading authority on the social construction of knowledge

Atul Prakash:  Professor at the University of Michigan; current interests include groupware systems, security, middleware, adaptability in distributed systems, and software engineering

Keith Pratt: Chair of the Management Information Systems program at Ottawa University in Kansas.  Co-author with Rena Palloff of Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace (Jossey-Bass), which won the 1994 Frandson Award for excellence in literature in higher education.  

Peter Reimann: Professor in the Education Faculty at the University of Sydney.  Primary research areas are learning and educational psychology with a focus on new educational technologies, multimedia-based and knowledge-based learning environments and the development of evaluation and assessment methods for the effectiveness of computer-based technologies, both on the individual and the organisational level. 

Paul Resta: holds the Ruth Knight Millikan Centennial Professorship in Instructional Technology and serves as Director of the Learning Technology Center at the University of Texas at Austin. His current work focuses on web-based learning environments, computer-supported collaborative learning, and the use of telecommunications and multimedia technologies to enhance learning opportunities for students in rural isolated areas.

Celia Romm: Professor at Wayne State University, Detroit.  She has been researching collaborative online teaching for a number of years. Currently she is particularly interested in the motivational, cross-cultural, and organizational aspects of online collaborative teaching.

Jeremy Roschelle: Research scientist at SRI International and co-Director of the Centre for Innovative Learning Technologies.  Recently edited a special issue on collaborative learning in the Journal of the Learning Sciences.

Gavriel Salomon:  Professor at the University of Haifa in Israel.  Has researched and published extensively on cultivating cognitions, pedagogy in the age of computing, and the design of new learning environments.  Editor of Distributed cognitions (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Marlene Scardamalia: Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education where she leads the Knowledge Forum project, conducting research on cognitive processes, intentional learning, and the design of computer-supported intentional learning environments.

Shlomo Sharan:  Professor at Yeshiva University in New York.  Editor of Handbook of Cooperative Learning Methods (Greenwood Press, 1994).

Lorraine Sherry:  Senior research associate with RMC Research Corporation in Denver. Main areas of research are computer-supported collaborative learning, adoption and diffusion of instructional technology, educational research, and evaluation of federal IT programs.

Robert Slavin: Co-Director of the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk at Johns Hopkins University.  Has authored or co-authored more than 180 articles and 15 books, including Educational Psychology: Theory into Practice (Allyn & Bacon, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1994), School and Classroom Organization (Erlbaum, 1989), Effective Programs for Students at Risk (Allyn & Bacon, 1989), Cooperative Learning: Theory, Research, and Practice (Allyn & Bacon, 1990,1995), Preventing Early School Failure (Allyn & Bacon, 1994), and Every Child, Every School: Success for All (Corwin, 1996).

Nancy Songer: Associate Professor of Science Education & Educational Technology School of Education, University of Michigan. Her field of expertise is explorations of the educational potential and realities of innovative technologies for reform-based science education in urban settings, elementary and middle school science, and the development of learning environments which are sensitive to diversity and gender issues. 

Elsebeth Sorensen: Associate Professor at Aalborg University. One of the initiators behind the web-based MS in ICT and Learning, offered on the basis of collaboration between five Danish Universities. Her research comprises pedagogical/instructional
design and implementation of technology in relation to design of distributed learning processes. The perspective of her research is found within the establishment of dialogue, reflection and collaboration. 

Elizabeth Stacey: Senior lecturer in the School of Scientific and Developmental Studies in the Education Faculty at Deakin University's Melbourne campus. Her doctoral research has explored collaborative group learning through computer mediated communication with adult learners. 

Gerry Stahl: Associate Professor at Drexel University's College of Information Science and Technology. He has published very widely in many aspects of collaborative learning and recipient of several NSF grants. His current grants are to investigate support for collaborative learning at digital libraries like the Math Forum. Program Chair of CSCL 2002.

Dan Suthers: Director, Laboratory for Interactive Learning Technologies, at the University of Hawaii.  His specializations are in artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, applications of these fields to technologies for learning, and architectures for distributed and intelligent collaborative systems. His current focus is on the design and study of representational affordances for computer supported collaborative learning.

Kevin Sweeney: Software analyst for Biomedical Multimedia Unit at University of Melbourne; research interests in online discussion forums for collaborative learning.   

Lesley Treleaven:  Director of the IS-KOMO research group at the University of Western Sydney, which focuses on the human, social, and technological aspects of managing knowledge in an organisational context.

Murray Turoff: Distinguished Professor of Computer and Information Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology.  Has written extensively on collaborative learning and co-authored Learning Networks: A field guide (MIT Press, 1995).

Laura M. Ventimiglia: Assistant Dean at North Shore Community College in Massachusetts. Her research interests are in the areas of group process, diversity, and learning styles as they relate to student academic success.

Barbara Wasson:  Professor in Information Science at the University of Bergen. Current research interests include collaborative telelearning, sociocultural learning theories, research methodologies for studying virtual environments and pedagogical agents. Conference Chair for EuroCSCL 2003.

Etienne Wenger:  known for his work on communities of practice. "The basic idea is that human knowing is fundamentally a social act. This simple observation has profound implications for the way we think of and attempt to support learning".

David Wiley: Professor at Utah State University. His work blends learning objects, self-organization, complexity theory, social networks, collaborative learning, discourse, open source culture, and intellectual property law.

Earl Woodruff: Associate Professor at OISE-University of Toronto.  interested in the social construction of knowledge, the role of technology in education, discourse and knowledge building, science education, professional development and mathematics education. Current work addresses the role of handheld and wearable computing devices in education.

Jörg Zumbach: Researcher in the Department of Psychology at Heidelberg University, has written extensively in both English and German on various aspects of problem-based learning and CSCL.

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