Outside-in, Inside-out, or Outside-out? Exploring the Flow of New Ideas and the Development of CSCL and ICLS Via Co-Authorship Networks From 1995 to 2020

Abstract

This paper examines all conference papers published in the proceedings of the International Conference of Learning Sciences (ICLS) and the International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) from 1995 to 2020 to explore the changes of research foci in the two research communities over the years. By conducting keyword analysis and social network analysis on the time-evolving co-authorship networks, we found three distinctive spreading patterns of keywords in the two communities: outside-in ascending pattern, inside-out ascending pattern, and outside-out descending pattern. Our analysis also reveals how different co-authorship cliques and core authors have influenced such patterns, and points to possible actions for both research communities.