Gerry Stahl
Gerry Stahl | |
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 Gerry Stahl keynote at ICCE 2009 in Hong Kong | |
| Born | March 16, 1945 Wilmington, DE, USA |
| Website | gerrystahl |
Gerry Stahl is emeritus professor of computing and informatics at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, USA. He is a researcher in the field of Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) and the Learning Sciences. He has taught, designed, analyzed and theorized about learning with technology in small groups. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning.
Biography
Gerry Stahl was born in Wilmington, DE on March 16, 1945. He grew up outside of Philadelphia, in the town of Trevose, Bensalem township. [1]
Education
Stahl studied philosophy and mathematics at MIT (1963-1967), where he also took courses from Minsky and Noam Chomsky and became active in the New Left. He studied continental philosophy and social theory at Heidelberg, Northwestern and Frankfurt Universities (1968-1973), writing a dissertation on Marx and Heidegger. Later, he studied computer science and cognitive science at the University of Colorado (1989-1993), developing the Hermes system for design rationale and writing a dissertation on tacit knowledge.
Work
Stahl worked as a computer programmer and systems analyst at Temple University and Northwestern University, was a community organizer in the neighborhoods of Philadelphia and then ran the Community Computerization Project to help non-profit organizations computerize when personal computers became available.
He was a computer science researcher in Boulder, CO and research professor at the University of Colorado. He then became a tenured professor at Drexel University (2002-2014), in the College of Computing and Informatics.
Academic career
Stahl taught courses on software design: HCI, CSCW, CSCL. He directed the Virtual Math Teams (VMT) Project at the Math Forum, funded by nine federal grants totaling about six million dollars. He presented and/or published over three hundred conference papers, journal articles, book chapters and talks. He was program chair of CSCL 2002 (Boulder) and program co-chair of CSCL 2011 (Hong Kong), and helped organize many other conferences. He developed the theory of group cognition.
Books
Stahl’s books include:
- Group Cognition: Computer Support for Building Collaborative Knowledge (MIT Press, 2006) [2]
- Studying Virtual Math Teams (Springer, 2009) [3]
- Translating Euclid: Designing a Human-Centered Mathematics (Morgan & Claypool, 2013) [4]
His major writings are described and available at his eLibrary. [5]
All his publications and presentations are available from his publications pages. [6] Template:Persondata
Notes
- ^ http://gerrystahl.net/personal
- ^ Stahl, G. (2006) Group Cognition: Computer Support for Building Collaborative Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
- ^ Stahl, G. (2006) Studying Virtual Math Teams. New York, NY: Springer
- ^ Stahl, G. (2013) Translating Euclid: Designing a Human-Centered Mathematics. Morgan & Claypool
- ^ http://gerrystahl.net/elibrary
- ^ http://gerrystahl.net/publications