Learning to collaborate by collaborating: a face-to-face collaborative activity for measuring and learning basics about teamwork.

In today's fast-changing business environment, teams have emerged as a requirement for business success. However, in schools and universities, students are usually not taught teamwork skills. In this paper, we introduce learning to collaborate by collaborating, a process that enables collaboration a...

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Published in:Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 126 - 143
Main Authors: Cortez C, Nussbaum M, Woywood G, Aravena R
Format: clinical trial pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Apr2009
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          Cortez C
          Nussbaum M
          Woywood G
          Aravena R
        affil: Center for Innovation on Education, Universidad Tecnológica de Chile INACAP, Santiago, Chile
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          Collaboration Education
          Curriculum Development
          Teaching Methods
          Teamwork Education
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          Clinical Trials
          Colleges and Universities
          Education, Baccalaureate
          Educational Measurement
          Experiential Learning
          Factor Analysis
          Funding Source
          Interpersonal Relations
          Outcomes of Education
          Paired T-Tests
          Repeated Measures
          Software
          Wireless Communications
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      ab: In today's fast-changing business environment, teams have emerged as a requirement for business success. However, in schools and universities, students are usually not taught teamwork skills. In this paper, we introduce learning to collaborate by collaborating, a process that enables collaboration and teamwork skills to be taught and measured through face-to-face collaborative work and class-wide activities supported by wirelessly connected hand-held devices. Following a description of learning to collaborate by collaborating, we present an experimental study whose results demonstrate that participants in the process displayed improved teamwork performance. We conclude that it is possible to effectively teach collaboration skills through the use of immediate feedback provided by a supporting technology.
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