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Research

Research during the height of my career at Drexel was focused on the Virtual Math Teams Project, which is documented on the VMT webpage.
More broadly, my academic research is reflected in my Curriculum Vita (CV).

Translating Euclid

The book on "Translating Euclid" presents the research of the VMT Project as of Spring 2013. It reflects on this research from multiple perspectives. The book is described at the Euclid webpage, and videos of lectures related to the book are available there.

The Virtual Math Teams (VMT) Project

The VMT Project. This was the focus of my research at Drexel. My first year there, I met with people at the Math Forum and we submitted three proposals to NSF, two of which were funded. These grants funded Phase I of the VMT Project from 2003-2008. In 2003, four iSchool PhD students joined the project and we started to study collaborative learning of mathematics. That year concluded with a workshop with invited CSCL researchers from many countries. The project continued to provide data for many dissertations and analyses. Researchers at other universities carryied out their own versions of the project in collaboration with the Drexel team. The project is documented at VMT. The co-PIs on the VMT project during Phase I were Steve Weimar (Director, The Math Forum) and Wesley Shumar (Anthropologist at the College of Arts & Sciences, Drexel). Post-Doc was Alan Zemel (now At SUNY Albany). Research Assistants were Johann Sarmiento, Murat Cakir, Nan Zhou, Ramon Toledo (College of Information Science, Drexel). The original software developers were Martin Wessner and Martin Muehlpfordt (Concert Project, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Darmstadt, Germany). They were supported by Math Forum technical staff. Visiting researchers also included Jan-Willem Strijbos, Fatos Xfar, Stefan Trausan-Matu, Elizabeth Charles, Weiqin Chen, Henrry Rodriguez and Fei-Ching Chen.

Phase II of the VMT Project from 2008-2011 was funded by several grants from NSF and ONR. During this period, we ported GeoGebra into the VMT environment as a multi-user system for dynamic mathematics. Baba Kofi and Jimmy were the technical staff. The VMT Project collaborated with Carolyn Rose at CMU on software agents in VMT.

Phase III of the VMT Project is from 2011-2015, funded by an NSF DR K-12 grant for discovery learning in schools. This is a teacher professional development approach using the VMT environment with GeoGebra. It is in collaboration with Arthur Powell at Rutgers-Newark and Jason Silverman at Drexel's School of Education. The co-PIs include Steve Weimar at the Math Forum as well as Sean Goggins, Andrea Forte, Jennifer Rode and Michael Khoo at the iSchool at Drexel.

See below for funding details and the VMT web page for more details about the project, publications and the technology.


Engaged Learning in Online Communities (ELOC)

ELOC. This was a collaborative effort in 2005-2008 to plan an NSF Science of Learning Center focused on CSCL. Although there was no opportunity to propose such a center, the project succeeded in holding a number of workshops and building a network of researchers, leading to several ideas and projects. The PIs for the project were Gerry Stahl (Drexel), Dan Suthers (Hawaii), Sharon Derry (Wisconsin), K. Ann Renninger (Swarthmore) and Mary Marlino (UCAR). Other central participants were Steve Weimar (Math Forum), Wes Shumar (Drexel), Cindy Hmelo-Silver (Rutgers), Gerhard Fischer (Colorado), Tammy Sumner (Colorado).


The Group Cognition Laboratory

The Group Cognition Lab conducts basic research on phenomena of distributed cognition that take place distinctively at the small-group level of description, such as collaborative knowledge building, joint decision making, group problem solving, shared meaning making, co-construction of knowledge representations.

The Lab specializes in studies that make visible the development of group cognitive processes by generating, capturing and analyzing naturalistic episodes of computer-mediated interaction by novices, such as teams of students just learning to problem solve together online. The microanalysis of these episodes reveals characteristics of group process that contribute to an empirically grounded theory of group cognition, which is emerging from the lab.

The Lab is a flexible collaboration of researchers who bring complementary skills and interests to the multidisciplinary mission of the Lab. This includes information scientists interested in small-group cognitive processes, educators interested in how to promote learning of group-cognitive skills, qualitative and quantitative analysts interested in adapting social science research tools to the analysis of group cognition, software designers interested in developing online environments to support effective collaboration, and theorists interested in elaborating the theory of group cognition.

The following major activities are integrated within the Lab:
• Developing the Virtual Math Teams (VMT) service at the Math Forum for generating real-world data on small groups of students learning to engage in online problem solving of open-ended, ill-structured math problems.
• Working with schools of education and math-teacher-training programs to involve teachers and students in exploring the potentials of the VMT service.
• Conducting collaborative data sessions of researchers to analyze the group interactions taking place in logs of online group work.
• Developing case studies and quantitative analyses of the data from logs of online group work to describe characteristics of group cognition.
• Designing new features for the VMT environment to support group-cognitive accomplishments, based on the microanalysis of interesting cases of usage.
• Extending the theory of group cognition, including building graphical and computational models, clarifying terminology, defining specific concepts, and relating to cognate theories.

The Lab has been recognized as a leading center for research on group cognition based on its work from September 2003 to the present. It has gone through many cycles of design-based research using a prototype VMT environment at the Math Forum, including Spring Fests in 2005, 2006 and 2007, in which student groups from around the world met for sequences of four hour-long sessions. This produced 2,000 student-hours of data, which was reported in about 200 academic publications. In addition, two major books were published: Group Cognition (Stahl, 2006, MIT Press) assembled studies of online collaboration that motivated the work of the Lab and the VMT service; Studying Virtual Math Teams (Stahl, 2009, Springer Press) includes the most important reports from the Lab and from collaborating researchers.

Potential directions for the coming years include the following:
• Design and implement additional functionality for the VMT collaboration environment, including dynamic geometric representations and intelligent tutoring support. (Research question: How do visual representations and automated guidance contribute to establishing common ground and scaffolding problem solving?)
• Explore web interfaces to support the spontaneous formation of ad hoc virtual teams within a large distributed community, including participants from different cultures and different time zones. (Research question: How to stimulate and support ad hoc teams and how to overcome geographic or cultural differences?)
• Further integrate synchronous and asynchronous media to coordinate group accomplishments at different time scales and different social scales, from intense interaction of small groups to community knowledge building over years. (Research question: What differences do temporal and social scales introduce into group cognition? How to archive synchronous interaction content as useful knowledge and data for the community to reuse asynchronously?)
• Scale up the VMT service to be a regular, year-round service of the Math Forum, used by a large number of groups in creative ways. (Research questions: How to foster and support an online community with minimal staffing, and to manage large numbers of interactions within a safe and productive context?)
• Collaborate with teachers and with math-teacher training programs to enhance the pedagogy, to support teacher involvement and to extend the user base of the VMT service. (Research questions: How to build a distributed community with different levels of expertise and to build teacher's reflective practice through participation in VMT?)
• Continue to hold data sessions of researchers to analyze data from new usage and to explore phenomena of interest in more depth. (Research question: What are the characteristics of group-cognitive problem solving processes?)
• Apply new qualitative and quantitative social-science methods to the analysis of group-cognitive phenomena. (Research question: How to combine, e.g., conversation analysis and social network analysis or automated coding?)
• Develop quantitative measures of social presence, task performance, cooperative practices, longitudinal social relations and collaborative information behavior in self-assembling synchronous/asynchronous teams. (Research question: How can we measure processes of online group cognition?)
• Conduct a longitudinal microanalysis of the entire transcript from two four-hour Spring Fest sessions. This would be a ground-breading analysis approach and an innovative style of monograph. (Research question: What are the methodological issues in moving from diachronic snapshots of group cognition in brief excerpts to longitudinal changes in collaboration and shared understanding?)
• Continue to publish analyses and to share data with international collaborators. Further refine the theory of group cognition, including building graphical and computational models. (Research question: How can aspects of the theory be summarized in models?)
It is important to note that these aspects of future work are not separable, but need to be conducted as parts of the integrated work of the Lab. The foundational theoretical work of the lab builds upon empirical microanalysis of situated practical activities and aims to contribute to the improved design of tools, concepts and principles to support practical activities.


My Research Career

For my tenure review in Fall of 2007, I compiled documentation of my activities at Drexel for internal and external review. Based on this, I was awarded tenure in Spring 2008.


My Grants and Proposals from the iSchool and the Math Forum at Drexel

Grants Funded

“Computer-Supported Math Discourse Among Teachers and Students.” Supplementary award DRL-1448116 from the National Science Foundation Discovery Research K-12  (DR K-12) Program for $152,743 over 2 years on September 1, 2014. PI: Gerry Stahl; co-PI: Stephen Weimar. For programmer salary to develop VMT-mobile technology.

“Computer-Supported Math Discourse Among Teachers and Students.” Supplementary award DRL-135021 from the National Science Foundation Discovery Research K-12  (DR K-12) Program for $120,000 over 3 years on September 1, 2013. PI: Gerry Stahl; co-PI: Stephen Weimar. For participant support of teacher stipends and student prizes.

“Computer-Supported Math Discourse Among Teachers and Students.” Award DRL-1118773 from the National Science Foundation Discovery Research K-12  (DR K-12) Program for $1,800,000 over 5 years on September 1, 2011. PI: Gerry Stahl; co-PIs: Stephen Weimar, Jason Silverman, Michael Khoo, Sean Goggins; collaborative proposal with Rutgers, PI: Arthur Powell; other senior personnel: Andrea Forte, Jennifer Rode, Loretta Dicker, Annie Fetter, Tony Mantoan, Jay Scott. http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/dr2011.pdf.

“Towards Optimization of Macrocognitive Processes: Automating Analysis of the Emergence of Leadership in Ad Hoc Teams.” Award N000141110221 from the Office of Naval Research Collaboration and Knowledge Interoperability (CKI) Program for $909,029 over 3 years on May 17, 2011. PI: Carolyn Rosé (CMU); co-PIs: Gerry Stahl, Sean Goggins, Emily Patterson (Ohio State), Marcela Borge (Penn State), John Carroll (Penn State), Andrew Duchon (Aptima). Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/onr2011.pdf.

“Theories and Models of Group Cognition.” Award from the Office of Naval Research, Collaboration and Knowledge Interoperability (CKI) Program for $675,000 over 3 years starting November 12, 2009. PI: Gerry Stahl; co-PIs: Sean Goggins, Stephen Weimar and Carolyn Rosé (CMU). http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/onr2009.pdf.

“Dynamic Support for Virtual Math Teams.” Award DRL-0835383. Funded by the National Science Foundation Advanced Learning Technologies  (ALT) Program for $306,355 over 3 years on August 1, 2009. PI: Gerry Stahl; co-PI: Stephen Weimar; Collaborative proposal with Carolyn Rosé (CMU). http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/alt2008.pdf.

“Exploring Adaptive Support for Virtual Math Teams.” Award DRL0723580. Funded by the National Science Foundation Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) Program for $50,000 over 1 year on August 1, 2007. PI: Carolyn Rosé (CMU); consultant: Gerry Stahl. GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/reese2007c.pdf.

"Engaged Learning in Online Communities." Award SBE-0518477. Funded by the National Science Foundation Science of Learning Center Catalyst Program for $180,762 over 3 years on October 1, 2005. PI: Gerry Stahl; co-PIs: Sharon J Derry (Wisconsin); K. Ann Renninger (Swarthmore); Mary R Marlino (UCAR); Daniel D Suthers (Hawaii). Project description: GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/slc2005.

"IERI: Catalyzing & Nurturing Online Workgroups to Power Virtual Learning Communities." Award IERI 0325447. Funded by the National Science Foundation IERI Program for $2,300,00 over 5 years on September 1, 2003. PI: Gerry Stahl; co-PIs: Stephen Weimar and Wesley Shumar. Project description: GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/itr2003

"Collaboration Services for the Math Forum Digital Library." Award DUE 0333493. Funded by the National Science Foundation NSDL Services Program for $450,000 over 3 years on August 15, 2003. PI: Gerry Stahl; co-PIs: Stephen Weimar and Wesley Shumar. Project description and proposal reviews: GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/nsdl2003

Other Proposals Submitted

“Computer-Supported Math Discourse Among Teachers and Students.” Proposal DRL-1118773 to the National Science Foundation Discovery Research K-12  (DR K-12) Program for $3,500,000 over 5 years on January 6, 2011. PI: Gerry Stahl; co-PIs: Stephen Weimar, Jason Silverman, Mick Khoo, Sean Goggins; collaborative proposal with Rutgers, PI: Arthur Powell. http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/dr2011.pdf.

“Towards Optimization of Macrocognitive Processes: Automating Analysis of the Emergence of Leadership in Ad Hoc Teams." Proposal to the Office of Naval Research Collaboration and Knowledge Interoperability (CKI) Program for $909,029 over 3 years on February 10, 2011. PI: Carolyn Rose (CMU); co-PIs: Gerry Stahl, Sean Goggins, Emily Patterson (Ohio State), Marcela Borge (Penn State), John Carroll (Penn State), Andrew Duchon (Aptima). Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/onr2011.pdf.

“DR K-12: Computer-Supported Math Cognition Through Shared Visualizations and Collaborative Discourse.” Proposal DRL-6952834 to the National Science Foundation Discovery Research K-12  (DR K-12) Program for $3,500,000 over 5 years on January 7, 2010. PI: Gerry Stahl; co-PIs: Stephen Weimar, Jason Silverman, Mick Khoo, Sean Goggins; collaborative proposal with Rutgers, PI: Arthur Powell. http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/dr2009.pdf.

“Theories and Models of Group Cognition.” Proposal to the Office of Naval Research Collaboration and Knowledge Interoperability (CKI) Program for $675,000 over 3 years on October 1, 2009. PI: Gerry Stahl; co-PIs: Sean Goggins, Stephen Weimar and Carolyn Rosé (CMU). http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/onr2009.pdf.

“Collaborative Knowledge Work in Social-Computational Systems.” Proposal 6952103 to the National Science Foundation SES – Science, Technology and Society (SES) Program for $747,599 over 3 years on September 21, 2009. PI: Michael Khoo; co-PIs: Gerry Stahl, Eileen Abels, Sean Goggins, Jiexun Li. http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/ses2009.pdf.

“Multidisciplinary Curriculum Improvement and Innovation Using Software Defined Radio.” Proposal to the National Science Foundation Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Program (Phase I — Exploratory). Submitted for $200,000 over 2 years on May 21, 2009. PI: Kapil Dandekar (Drexel ECE); co-PI: Gerry Stahl (Drexel).

“Cyber-math: Developing mathematical reasoning through diverse collaborations.” Proposal to the National Science Foundation Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) Program. Submitted for $995,571 over 3 years on November 21, 2008. PI: Arthur Powell (Rutgers, Newark); co-PI: Gerry Stahl (Drexel). http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/cybermathREESE2008.pdf.

“Dynamic Support for Virtual Math Teams.” Proposal 0835426 to the National Science Foundation Advanced Learning Technologies  (ALT) Program for $306,355 over 3 years on April 25, 2008. PI: Gerry Stahl; co-PI: Stephen Weimar; Collaborative proposal with Carolyn Rosé (CMU). GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/alt2008.pdf.

"CDI-Type II: Social Computing and Data Mining in Support of Inquiry-based STEM Learning." Preliminary proposal to the National Science Foundation Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) Program. Submitted for  $2,500,931 for 4 years on Jan. 1, 2008. PI: Xiaohua Hu; co-PIs: Gerry Stahl, Eileen Abels, Yuan An, Stephen Weimar.

"CDI-Type I: Building a world of math discourse using a mix of platforms." Preliminary proposal to the National Science Foundation Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) Program. Submitted for $797,303 over 3 years on Jan.8, 2008. PI: Werner Krandick (Department of Computer Science, Drexel University); co-PI: Gerry Stahl (IST, Drexel).

" DR-K12 R&D: STEM Inquiry Learning in the Internet Public Library and the Math Forum Model." Proposal to the National Science Foundation Discovery Research K-12 (DR K12) Program. Submitted for  $2,160,260 for 5 years on Jan. 28, 2008. PI: Deliah Neuman; co-PIs: Gerry Stahl, Tony Hu, Michael Khoo, Yuan An.

"Increasing Helping Behavior in Collaborative Problem Solving in the Virtual Math Teams Environment." Proposal 735571 to the National Science Foundation Advanced Learning Technologies (ALT) Program. Submitted for $606,669 over 3 years on April 23, 2007. PI: Carolyn Rosé (CMU); co-PI: Gerry Stahl (Drexel) and co-PI: Stephen Weimar (Math Forum). GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/alt2007.pdf.

“Collaborative Research: Representations for Analyzing Collaborative Knowledge Construction in Technology-mediated Learning Environments.” Proposal 723505 to the National Science Foundation Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) Program. Submitted for $249,062 over 3 years on January 29, 2007. PI: Gerry Stahl; co-PI: Stephen Weimar (Math Forum) and Alan Zemel (Culture & Communication). Collaborative proposal with Daniel Suthers (Hawaii) for $450,999 and Cindy Hmelo-Silver (Rutgers New Brunswick). GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/reese2007a.pdf.

“eMath: Diverse High School Students Developing Mathematical Reasoning through Online Collaboration.” Proposal 723605 to the National Science Foundation Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) Program. Submitted for $995,145 over 3 years on January 29, 2007. PI: Arthur Powell (Rutgers, Newark); co-PI: Gerry Stahl (Drexel) and Carolyn Maher (Rutgers). GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/reese2007b.pdf.

“Exploring Adaptive Support for Virtual Math Teams.” SGER Proposal to the National Science Foundation Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) Program. Submitted for $50,000 over 1 year on January 29, 2007. PI: Carolyn Rosé (CMU); consultants: Gerry Stahl and the Math Forum. GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/reese2007c.pdf.

"Optimizing Feedback for Eliciting Pedagogically Valuable Explanation in Collaborative Problem Solving." Proposal to the National Science Foundation Advanced Learning Technologies  Program. Submitted for 2 years on May 15, 2006. PI: Carolyn Rosé (CMU); co-PIs: Stephen Weimar and Gerry Stahl. GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/alt2006.pdf.

"Engaged Learning in Online Communities." Proposal to the National Science Foundation Science of Learning Center Catalyst Program. Submitted for $180,762 over 1.5 years on January 14, 2005. Proposal 0518477: GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/engaged/description.pdf.

"Interaction Math: An Informal Online Learning Collaboratory Led by the Math Forum @ Drexel." Proposal to the National Science Foundation Informal Science Education  Program. Submitted for $2,933,126 over 5 years on January 6, 2005. PI: Gene Klotz (Math Forum); co-PIs: Gerry Stahl and Stephen Weimar. Proposal 0515544: GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/informal/description.pdf.

"Studying Online Collaborative Learning at the Math Forum." Proposal 337162 to the National Science Foundation ROLE Program. PI: Gerry Stahl; co-PIs: Scott Robertson and Wesley Shumar. Submitted for $1,790,931 over 3 years on June 1, 2003. Proposal: GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/role2003

"Collaboration Services for the Math Forum Digital Library." Proposal 333493 to the National Science Foundation NSDL Services Program. PI: Gerry Stahl; co-PIs: Stephen Weimar and Wesley Shumar. Submitted for $494,953 over 2 years on April 21, 2003. Proposal: GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/nsdl2003

"Group Knowledge Construction in Digital Library Communities." Proposal to the National Science Foundation NSDL Targeted Research Program. Submitted for $498,748 over 2 years on April 21, 2003. PI: Scott Robertson; co-PIs: Gerry Stahl and Susan Weidenbeck. Proposal 0333471: GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/nsdl2003b

"ITR: Catalyzing & Nurturing Online Workgroups to Power Virtual Learning Communities." Proposal to the National Science Foundation ITR Program. PI: Gerry Stahl; co-PIs: Stephen Weimar and Wesley Shumar. Submitted for $3,374,472 over 5 years on February 12, 2003. Proposal 0325447: GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/itr2003

"Educational Online Communities for At-Risk Youth." Proposal to foundations. Written for $88,000 over 1 year in December 2002. Proposal: GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/nursing2003/nursing.doc


My Research before Drexel

Although most of my research during the past several years has been related to the VMT project, I worked on a variety of projects earlier. Since the development of the Web I have documented my research on my website:

Research at Drexel. grant proposals at Drexel and the Math Forum

Research in Europe ITCOLE project, BSCL, Synergia

Research in Colorado WebGuide, State the Essence, Organizational Memory, Articulate Learners, Gamble Gulch, L3D Lab, Communications Theory

Research previously Hermes, OMOL, WebNet, CIE, TCA, CREW, OptoNet, consulting and programming

My curriculum vitae (in HTML Web and PDF printing formats) contains exhaustive listings of my academic activities, with links to the original source documents. .


My Grants and Proposals from the University of Colorado at Boulder

Grants Funded

Following are my grants as a post-doc and Research Professor from 1997-2001. Prior to that, I was involved with proposing, implementing and managing many city, state, federal & foundation grants from 1978-1984, and industry, state & federal grants from 1990-1996.

2001-2002: “Enhancing collaborative learning among researchers, practitioners, and students at CSCL 2002” (co-PI with Gerhard Fischer & Hal Eden) $49,860; 10/1/01-9/30/02. Sponsor: NSF. Proposal 124010.

2000-2001: “New Media to Support Collaborative Knowledge-Building: Beyond Consumption and Chat” (Principal Investigator) $19,752; Sponsor: Lab for New Media Strategy and Design. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/media/media.pdf. Results: http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/00/stahl/.

1999-2000: "Interoperability among Knowledge Building Environments" (Principal Investigator) $9,124; Sponsor: Center for Innovative Learning Technology / SRI. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/cilt99/proposal.pdf. Results: http://GerryStahl.net/xml.

1998-1999: "Collaborative Web-Based Tools for Learning to Integrate Scientific Results into Social Policy" (co-PI with Ray Habermann at NOAA) $89,338; Sponsor: NSF. Results: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/conferences/1999/group99/.

1997-2000: “Conceptual Frameworks and Computational Support for Organizational Memories and Organizational Learning” (co-PI with Gerhard Fischer and Jonathan Ostwald) $725,000; Sponsor: NSF, Computation and Social Systems program. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/omol. Results: GerryStahl.net/publications/journals/ai&society/AI&Soc.PDF.

1997-2000: “Allowing Learners to be Articulate: Incorporating Automated Text Evaluation into Collaborative Software Environments” (primary author and primary software developer; PIs: Gerhard Fischer, Walter Kintsch and Thomas Landauer) $678,239; Sponsor: James S. McDonnell Foundation, Cognitive Science in Education Program. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/mcdonnell. Results: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/journals/ile2000/ile.pdf.

Other Proposals Submitted

“Enhancing collaborative learning among researchers, practitioners, and students at CSCL 2002” (co-PI with Gerhard Fischer & Hal Eden) $49,860; Sponsor: NSF. Proposal 124010:

“New Media to Support Collaborative Knowledge-Building: Beyond Consumption and Chat” (Principal Investigator) Proposal to the Lab for New Media Strategy and Design. Submitted for $19,752 over 4 months on September 1, 2000. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/media/media.pdf.

"Interoperability among Knowledge Building Environments" (Principal Investigator) $9,124; Sponsor: Center for Innovative Learning Technology / SRI. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/cilt99/proposal.pdf.

"Collaborative Web-Based Tools for Learning to Integrate Scientific Results into Social Policy" (co-PI with Ray Habermann at NOAA) $89,338; Sponsor: NSF.

“Conceptual Frameworks and Computational Support for Organizational Memories and Organizational Learning” (co-PI with Gerhard Fischer and Jonathan Ostwald) $725,000; Sponsor: NSF, Computation and Social Systems program. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/omol.

“Allowing Learners to be Articulate: Incorporating Automated Text Evaluation into Collaborative Software Environments” (primary proposal author and post-doc; PIs: Gerhard Fischer, Walter Kintsch and Thomas Landauer) $678,239; Sponsor: James S. McDonnell Foundation, Cognitive Science in Education Program. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/mcdonnell.

"CSS: Perspectives on Collaboration: a Micro-ethnographic Study of Computational Perspectives in Computer Support for Collaborative Knowledge-Building at a Virtual Biology Laboratory." (Principal Investigator) Proposal 117630 to the National Science Foundation CSS  Program. Submitted for $307,718 over 3 years on February 15, 2001. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/css2001/css2001.pdf.

"ITR/PE (EHR): Information Technology for Distributed Collaborative Learning in a Virtual Biology Lab." (Principal Investigator) Proposal 112397 to the National Science Foundation ITR Program. Submitted for $472,610 over 3 years on January 18, 2001. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/itr2001/proposal.pdf.

"ROLE proposal: The Role of Computational Cognitive Artifacts in Collaborative Learning and Education" (Principal Investigator) Proposal 106950 to the National Science Foundation ROLE Program. Submitted for $970,971 over 3 years on December 1, 2000. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/role/role.pdf.

"ROLE Pre-proposal: The Role of Computational Cognitive Artifacts in Collaborative Learning and Education" (Principal Investigator) Proposal 96877 to the National Science Foundation ROLE Program. Submitted for $750,000 over 3 years on September 1, 2000. Encouraged full submission. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/role/role2pre.pdf

"ROLE Pre-proposal: Research on Collaboration in Learning and on Collaboration Technology in Education" (Principal Investigator) Proposal 83440 to the National Science Foundation ROLE Program. Submitted for $720,000 over 3 years on February 29, 2000. Encouraged full submission. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/role/role1pre.pdf.

"ITR/IM: Perspectives on Collaborative Knowledge-Building" Proposal 82829 to the National Science Foundation ITR Program. (Principal Investigator) Submitted for $489,560 over 3 years on February 17, 2000. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/itr_kbe/itr-kbe.pdf.  

"IT Support for Knowledge-Building in Workgroups" (Principal Investigator) Proposal 82263 to the National Science Foundation CSS Program. Submitted for $399,190 over 3 years on February 15, 2000. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/omol2000/OMOL.2000.pdf.

"Collaborative Research on Knowledge-Building Environments: Growing a National and International Research Community for Distance Learning Information Technology" (Principal Investigator) Proposal 77095 to the National Science Foundation. Pre-proposal submitted for $2,700,000 over 5 years on January 5, 2000. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/collab/collab.pdf.

"Models for Organizing Collaboration: Ways of Supporting Distributed Learning" Proposal to Lotus Corporation. (Principal Investigator) Submitted for $68,000 over 1 year on January 18, 2000. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/lotus/lotus.pdf

"POW! Perspectives on the Web" (Principal Investigator) Proposal to the Colorado Advanced Software Institute (CASI). Submitted  for $40,000 over 1 year on November 30, 1999. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/casi.

"POW! Perspectives on the Web" (Principal Investigator) Proposal to Intel Corporation. Submitted  for $190,000 over 3 years on October 18, 1999. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/intel.  

"Research CyberStudio" (Principal Investigator) Internal research concept paper. Proposal: http://GerryStahl.net/publications/proposals/cyberstudio.