Biography: Elisabeth Sylvan
Elisabeth Sylvan
Project Leader I
617-873-9714
Program/Areas of Interest
Informal learning, social media; technology tools for learning; creativity research; diffusion of innovations in learning; human computer interaction; qualitative and quantitative methods
TERC Projects
Biographical Summary
See attached CV.
Selected Publications
- a) Predicting Social Influence and Project Influence in Online Communities of Creators Elisabeth Sylvan (2010) In Proceedings of the 9th international Conference of the Learning Sciences - Volume 2 (Chicago, Illinois, June 29 - July 02, 2010). K. Gomez, L. Lyons, and J. Radinsky, Eds. . International Society of the Learning Sciences, 455-457.
- b) Predicting Influence in an Online Community of Creators Elisabeth Sylvan (2010) In Proceedings of the 28th international Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 10 - 15) . CHI-10. ACM, New York, NY, 1913-1916.
- c) The Computer Clubhouse Village: An Intranet For Sharing and Connecting Elisabeth Sylvan ; Kylie A. Peppler, Yasmin B. Kafai, and Robbin N. Chapman (eds.) (2009) The Computer Clubhouse: Creativity and Constructionism in Youth Communities . New York: Teachers College Press.
- d) Who Knows Whom in a Virtual Learning Network?: Applying Social Network Analysis to Communities of Learners at the Computer Clubhouse Elisabeth Sylvan (2006) In Proceedings of the 7th international Conference on Learning Sciences (Bloomington, Indiana, June 27 - July 01, 2006) . International Society of the Learning Sciences, 758-764.
- e) Methodologies for Understanding Social Creativity During Collaborative Design Activities: A Proposal Elisabeth Sylvan ; John Gero and Mary Lou Maher (eds.) (2005) Computational and Cognitive Models of Creative Design VI . University of Sydney, Australia: Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition. 365-374.
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Associations
ACM (Association of Computer Machinery), ISLS (International Society of the Learning Sciences)


