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. 2023 Jan 21:1–11. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s11528-022-00823-9

Table 2.

History of Collaborative Learning, Cooperative Learning, and CSCL (Inspired by the table in Johnson & Johnson (1999, pp. 185–186))

Timeline of Collocative learning
1964 Abercrombie book Anatomy of Judgment
1970 Mason Book Collaborative Learning (First time the term “collaborative learning” appeared in literature)
1973 Bruffee “Collaborative Learning: Some Practical Models”, College English
1980s (American Association of Higher Education) AAHE’s Action Community on Collaborative Learning
1984 Bruffee “Collaborative Learning and Conversation of Mankind”, College English
1986 Bruffee “Social construction, language, and the authority of knowledge: A bibliographical essay”, College English
1992 Collaborative Learning: A Sourcebook for Higher Education, edited by Goodsell et al.
1993 Bruffee book Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge
Timeline of Cooperative learning
1966 David Johnson began training teachers on cooperative learning
1970 David Johnson book Social Psychology of Education
1976 Sharan & Sharan book Small Group Teaching (Group Investigation)
1978 Aronson “Jigsaw Classroom, Journal of Research and Development in Education
1979 First IASCE (International Association for the Study of Cooperation in Education) conference in Israel
1980 The term “cooperative learning” first appeared in literature (Review of Educational Research)
1985 AERA SIG Cooperative Learning
1995 Johnson & Johnson research review on competition and cooperation: Learning Together and Alone
Timeline of CSCL
1989 First CSCL workshop held in Italy by the NATO Special Program on Advanced Educational Technology. Follow-up workshops held in 1991 and 1992.
1995 First International Conference on CSCL held at the University of Indiana. Since then, the conference has been held biannually.
1996 1996 CSCL: Theory and Practice of an Emerging Paradigm edited by Koschmann.
2002 CSCL 2: Carrying forward the Conversation edited by Koschmann, Hall, & Miyake.
2006 The International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (ijCSCL) founded by the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS).