The challenge of collaborative learning in engineering and math

Guzdial, Mark; Ludovice, Pete; Park, Jongwoo; Morley, T. D.; Carroll, Karen; Ladak, Akbar

doi:10.1109/fie.2001.963910

Cited by 33 publications

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“…al [10] have shown that there is a strong dependence between the degree of involvement of students in a collaborative classroom and the type and field of the class.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 98%

Uncompressed HD video for collaborative teaching — an experiment

Hutanu

Paruchuri

Eiland

et al. 2007

2007 International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2007)

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This article describes a distributed classroom experiment carried out by five universities in the US and Europe at the beginning of 2007. This experiment was motivated by the emergence of new digital media technology supporting uncompressed high-definition video capture, transport and display as well as the networking services required for its deployment across wide distances. The participating institutes have designed a distributed collaborative environment centered around the new technology and applied it to join the five sites into a single virtual classroom where a real course has been offered to the registered students.Here we are presenting the technologies utilized in the experiment, the results of a technology evaluation done with the help of the participating students and we identify areas of future improvements of the system. While there are a few hurdles in the path of successfully deploying this technology on a large scale, our experiment shows that the new technology is sustainable and the significant quality improvements brought by it can help build an effective distributed and collaborative classroom environment.

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“…al [10] have shown that there is a strong dependence between the degree of involvement of students in a collaborative classroom and the type and field of the class.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 98%

Uncompressed HD video for collaborative teaching — an experiment

Hutanu

Paruchuri

Eiland

et al. 2007

2007 International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2007)

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“…Disadvantages include (time) inefficiency, unclear hierarchical structure and unfairness in grading. Also, active resistance to collaborative methods in science and engineering courses has been reported [3].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A competitive collaborative learning experience in chemical plant design

García-Galán

2010

IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference

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This paper reports on the experience of using collaborative learning techniques in a competition environment, which can be a proper approach in the traditionally highly demanding and competitive engineering courses, avoiding most of the drawbacks attributed to collaborative learning methods. The students were organized in contractor "companies" with several technical departments and a project manager, competing at every stage of the design process. The final result included some of the usual documentation of a professional basic engineering project. The results were good technically and well accepted by the students, but not all the drawbacks were removed.

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“…Guzdial et al [33] discuss the need for collaboration in the field of engineering, arguing "engineers must learn to interact with others, critique others' work, and accept criticism and alternative viewpoints." This is particularly important due to the nature of the problems engineers have to solve.…”

Section: Collaborative Learning In Engineering and Related Disciplmentioning

confidence: 99%