Paper Info
Title
Collaborating to learn, learning to collaborate: finding the balance in a cross-disciplinary design course
Abstract
We report on a four-year study of a cross-disciplinary design course. Using an action research model, we have designed and studied this course. In this paper we report on our study of the students' collaborations. We have found that, although students come to the class believing that they know how to collaborate, there is great variation in their collaborative experiences and outcomes. We outline four dimensions of collaboration that differentiate high and low performing groups, where performances is determined by project quality and student learning. These dimensions, 'teamness', communication, creation of a joint problem space and commitment to learning, have been defined through analysis of the ten groups of students who have taken this course. In this paper we use case studies to illustrate how these dimensions have differentially affected two groups who took the course. Finally, we describe our interventions and the parallels between this study and other research.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2006
ICLS '06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Learning sciences
cross-disciplinary design course,collaborative experience,joint problem space,student learning,great variation,project quality,case study,action research model,four-year study
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
0-8058-6174-2
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.65
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Emma Mercier111614.47
Shelley V. Goldman2225.94
Angela Booker320.99