1. Communication is not collaboration: observations from a case study in collaborative learning
- Author
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Delphine Dallison, Mark Craig, Alan Rochead, Gary Elliott-Cirigottis, Iestyn Jowers, Mark Gaved, Lloyd, Peter, and Bohemia, Erik
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Knowledge management ,Asynchronous communication ,Computer science ,business.industry ,Vocational education ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,Collaborative learning ,Context (language use) ,Architecture ,business ,Distributed manufacturing ,Early analysis ,Diversity (business) - Abstract
This paper presents a case study that focusses on developing communication and collaboration skills of undergraduate design students studying at a distance, and vocational learners based in a community maker-space. Participants were drawn from these formal and informal educational settings and engaged in a project framed in the context of distributed manufacturing, with designers working at a distance from the makers, whilst communicating using asynchronous online tools. Early analysis of the collected data has identified a diversity of working practice across the participants, and highlighted a disjunction between communication and collaboration. Encouraging learners to communicate is not the same as encouraging collaboration. Instead effective collaboration depends on sharing expertise through dialogue.
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- 2016