Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Faculty Member, Medical Education
Professor
School of Medicine
About
Timothy Koschmann is a Professor of Medical Education at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. He began his academic preparation in Philosophy (B.A., University of Missouri-Kansas City) and Experimental Psychology (M.S., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), but later, pursuing interests in Artificial Intelligence, went on to complete a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology (1987).
The focus of his research has evolved over the course of a long career. His early work in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) involved exploring the relations between technology, collaboration, and learning. This, quite naturally, led to investigations into the nature of collaboration itself and, from there, to even more basic inquiry into how understanding is displayed, monitored, and negotiated as a practical matter. Focusing on naturally-occurring interaction, he utilizes digital recordings and other collected exhibits as aids in fixing events of interest for later reconstruction and detailed study. Koschmann conducts fieldwork in settings related to the professional training of physicians and surgeons. His analytic approach is ethnomethodologically-informed and frequently draws upon findings from the literature of Conversation Analysis.
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