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Analysing the Learning Commons in the Digital Age
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Johnson, W. Michael; Khoo, Michael John – Understanding Teaching-Learning Practice, 2018
As the evolution of information ecosystems has accelerated across higher education, learning commons have become iconic places celebrating the changing nature of student learning. These places have become important symbolic centres in higher education today, combining the goals of equitable education together with access to unprecedented layers of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Shared Facilities, School Space, Models
Shared Understanding: Using a Conceptual Model to Support the Assessment of NCEA Group Composing
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Thorpe, Vicki; Gilmour, Hannah; Walton-Roy, Kathleen – Assessment Matters, 2017
This article considers the assessment of individuals' contributions to collaborative creative groups. It draws on research into collaborative group composing and its relationship to a secondary school qualification system, the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA). It explains how a conceptual model of group composing was used to…
Descriptors: Models, Musical Composition, Creativity, Cooperation
The Role of Communication and Cohesion in Reducing Social Loafing in Group Projects
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Lam, Chris – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2015
This study examines previously untested variables that influence social loafing in professional and technical communication group projects by determining the influence of communication quality and task cohesion on social loafing. A set-up factors model, which included group size, peer review, project scope, and method of team formation, was also…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Student Projects, Group Behavior, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Campus Educational Contexts and Civic Participation: Organizational Links to Collective Action
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Barnhardt, Cassie L. – Journal of Higher Education, 2015
Proponents of civic engagement extol the virtues of the college experience for enhancing students' capacities for democratic participation, yet few studies have examined the organizational contexts of such actions. This article applies theory regarding social movements in organizations to highlight the relationship between campus curricular…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Activism
An Investigation of Collaboration Processes in an Online Course: How Do Small Groups Develop over Time?
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Jahng, Namsook – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2012
This study investigated communication patterns and behavior in problem-solving groups in a graduate online course. An inductive qualitative analysis method was employed to analyze 732 messages that were retrieved from small group forums. The current study identified a temporal pattern of group development was in comparison with existing…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Problem Solving, Models, Group Behavior
Group Performance in Information Systems Project Groups: An Empirical Study
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Bahli, Bouchaib; Buyukkurt, Meral Demirbag – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2005
The importance of teamwork in Information Systems Development (ISD) practice and education has been acknowledged but not studied extensively to date. This paper tests a model of how groups participating in ISD projects perform and examines the relationships between some antecedents of this performance based on group research theory well…
Descriptors: Business, Research Methodology, Team Training, Information Systems