Exploring Collaborative Learning in Rensselaer's (1998)
| Venue: | in Submitted to Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '98 |
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@TECHREPORT{Dugan98exploringcollaborative,
author = {Classroom-In-The-Round Robert Dugan and Robert F. Dugan and Eric A. Breimer and Darren T. Lim and Ephraim P. Glinert and Mark K. Goldberg and Matthew V. Champagne},
title = {Exploring Collaborative Learning in Rensselaer's},
institution = {in Submitted to Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '98},
year = {1998}
}
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Abstract
This paper describes several aspects of our on-going research relating to technologies and techniques for collaborative learning. Our research is focused on the classroom-in-the-round, a CSCW enabled classroom that attempts to promote collaborative learning through novel room design, hardware, software and courseware. Encouraging preliminary feedback from courses we are teaching in the classroom is presented. An in-depth study conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of assigned roles on collaboration between pairs of users in a synchronous groupware simulation is then discussed. Statistically significant results show that assigned roles increase team interaction and improve group performance in subsequent unrelated group activities, when compared to a control group. The paper closes with some remarks on promising instructional techniques we are investigating for collaborative learning, including distributed grading, online presentation of team projects, and team-oriented presentation-style exams.
Keyphrases
collaborative learning statistically significant result novel room design team-oriented presentation-style exam group performance subsequent unrelated group activity team project assigned role synchronous groupware simulation on-going research online presentation promising instructional technique team interaction in-depth study several aspect encouraging preliminary feedback control group
