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Knowledge brokers play an essential role in bridging research and practice and mobilizing knowledge. Yet, literature offers little guidance and few examples for people and organizations engaging with educational systems in this capacity. Drawing on literature and our extensive knowledge brokerage experience, we address this gap and introduce the Learn, Illuminate, Nucleate, and Communicate (LINC) knowledge mobilization framework for knowledge brokers. We explain framework components and give examples from our project. 

Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is effective in improving students’ learning outcomes, yet CSCL research is rarely translated to classroom practice. To identify key CSCL research topics for K-12 STEM practice, we conducted a modified Delphi method study with a panel of practitioners and researchers. We relied on a knowledge mobilization framework to draw on expertise from both researchers, who produce new knowledge, and practitioners, who combine it with their pedagogical wisdom and use it in classrooms. We used the Delphi method because of its potential to address the power imbalances among panelists and modified it to facilitate knowledge mediation between knowledge production and use. The panelists identified seven key CSCL topics for translation from research into practice: Classroom discourse; Diversity, equity, and inclusion; Teacher preparation and professional development; Socially shared regulation of learning; Argumentation; Classroom orchestration and scripts; and Student and teacher identities. We also investigated panelists’ ideas on effective practitioner-researcher partnerships to inform the next stage of our project, where researchers and practitioners will jointly translate research from selected topics into practical guidance. We discuss our findings and the affordances and limitations of the Delphi method in knowledge mediation. 

We brought researchers and educators together to participate as panelists in a Delphi Method study and rate the importance of research topics in computer-supported collaborative learning for K12 STEM practice. At the end of the Delphi Method, researchers and practitioners converged on seven key topics. Researchers and practitioners will further explore these topics in the next project phase to develop resources to connect research to practice in classrooms. 

We brought researchers and educators together to participate as panelists in a Delphi Method study and rate the importance of research topics in computer-supported collaborative learning for K12 STEM practice. At the end of the Delphi Method, researchers and practitioners converged on seven key topics. Researchers and practitioners will further explore these topics in the next project phase to develop resources to connect research to practice in classrooms. 

Abstract: New digital technologies can help create equitable educational outcomes. We used bibliometric methods, a powerful tool for analysis of large bibliographic datasets, with an open-source software to map the computer supported collaborative learning literature. Applying a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens, we considered strengths and weaknesses of this method and analyzed the resulting literature map. We offer recommendations to researchers using similar approaches and re-envision the transformational potential of bibliometric analysis.