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IEEE Xplore - A collaborative model of engineering education for complex global environments

A collaborative model of engineering education for complex global environments

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This paper appears in:
Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2010 IEEE
Date of Conference: 27-30 Oct. 2010
Author(s): Qiu, R.G.
Nanjing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Nanjing, China
Page(s): S3J-1 - S3J-5
Product Type: Conference Publications
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Abstract

Although team-based projects have become a popular practice in colleges with focus on helping students learn subjects collaboratively and effectively, the current education paradigm mainly adopts ad hoc collaboration practices. There lacks a quantitative methodology for enabling appropriate and scientific approaches to guide the educational community in teaching and transforming educational practices to support the development, implementation, and improvement of state-of-the-art collaborative-learning practices on campuses. This paper presents a new computational model and framework to quantitatively explore the collaboration-based behavioral dynamics of student teams and its impact on team performance. More specifically, a suite of mathematical models in the form of computations, structural equation modeling, and principal component analysis are created to describe and analyze a variety of learning circumstances, aimed at generating rules of thumb to guide student teams to retune collaborative practices in a proactive and realtime manner for improved performance.

IEEE Xplore - A collaborative model of engineering education for complex global environments

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