Thinking Outside the Circle: the Design of Face-to-Face Collaborative Learning facilities

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Cavenagh, R. (2002). Thinking Outside the Circle: the Design of Face-to-Face Collaborative Learning facilities. In M. Driscoll & T. Reeves (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (pp. 174-180). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2002
Montreal, Canada
2002
  Margaret Driscoll & Thomas C. Reeves
AACE

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Robert Cavenagh, Dickinson College, USA

Abstract

Learners working on collaborative assignments using computers (which may also involve blended/hybrid learning) must engage in social as well as intellectual tasks. Indeed, at the residential undergraduate level, the development of interactive skills is often one of the more important aspects of their collaboration. Many existing facilities support such interaction badly if at all. This writer has undertaken a continuing investigation of persons-computer-facility interaction and has developed a series of learning facilities that appear to strengthen the quality of learner interaction by increasing time on tasks. This report demonstrates the process of creating groupwork oriented class and study spaces, the challenges and variables encountered, and the first pedagogical results of this work-in-progress. It also explores pedagogical strategies for instructors using such arrangements.

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• Collaboration
• Interaction
• Computers

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