Web Environments for Group-Based Project Work in Higher Education

Diepen van, Nico and Collis, Betty and Andernach, Toine (1997) Web Environments for Group-Based Project Work in Higher Education. International Journal of Educational Telecommunications, 3 (2-3). pp. 109-130. ISSN 1077-9124

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Abstract:	We discuss problems confronting the use of group-based project work as an instructional strategy in higher education and describe two courses in which course-specific World Wide Web (Web) environments have evolved over a series of course sequences and are used both as tool environments for group-process support and as the product environment of the project work itself. In particular we describe the use of specific Web-embedded shared workspace, communication-management and evaluation tools and their contribution to the management and educational value of group-based project work. The integration of instructional principles and strategies with the Web-based tools is also of particular importance. The 1996-97 versions of the courses analysed in this article can be found at http://www.to.utwente.nl/ism/ism1-96/home.htm for the first-year course in educational media design, and at www.edu.cs.utwente.nl/~aitnlpbg/, for the first-year course in applications of information technology. Both courses, at the University of Twente, use group-based project work as a major organizational form, but integrate all aspects of the courses within cohesive Web environments.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 1997 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Computer Architecture for Embedded Systems (CAES)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/17998
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