IS-04: Orchestrating Collaboration in the Classroom

Teamwork skills are essential for navigating today’s increasingly diverse workplaces, and educators play a key role in fostering these skills through their practice. However, reflection—a crucial step in developing these skills—is often overlooked. As educators, we have found that students deepen their learning by engaging in structured reflection on their experiences in teams. This interactive workshop will immerse educators in guided reflection and discussion using real-life case studies, demonstrating how reflection is key to teamwork skill development. By experiencing this process firsthand, participants will be better equipped with the tools to integrate reflection into their own teaching practices.

The SCripting and ORchestration Environment (SCORE) supports educators and researchers in designing and enacting active learning, including collaborative projects, collective inquiry, mixed reality, and asynchronous learning communities. SCORE features authoring tools, user management, data collection, collaboration support, and “roomcasting” for distributing resources to specific locations or devices. Inspired by the affordances of AI, SCORE includes a novel AI agent framework that provides real-time orchestration support, personalized learning guidance, learning analytics, and assessment. This presentation will showcase SCORE, including an interactive demonstration, discussing new modes of authoring and our vision for SCORE as an open-source project.