Examples from International Institutes

From Co-operative Learning to the Virtual Class
An Experience in Composition Techniques

Authors:

M. T. Blasco, J. L. Barrio, Y. A. Dimitriadis, C. A. Osuna, O. M. González, M .J. Verdú, D.Terán
University of Valladolid

Abstract:

This paper, describes the work with PENCACOLAS; an application in the field of the CSCL, created to support collaborative composition. The application helps students and teachers follow the co-operative writing processes. The experience develops at the Valladolid's Faculty of Education in our course of "Composition Techniques".

Reflective Collaborative Learning on the Web:
Drawing on the Master Class

Author :

Karen Ruhleder and Michael Twidale
University of Illinois

Abstract:

Paper illustrating how the authors draw on the music master class as an established face-to-face pedagogical model as one that supports reflective, collaborative learning practices. They then illustrate how this model is being reinterpreted and extended within the context of online learning communities exploring the skills of user interface design.

Collaborative On-Line Research and Learning (Coral)

Clarion University of Pennsylvania , West Chester University of Pennsylvania, University of Wyoming/Casper College

Overview

Since 1992, a multidisciplinary collaborative task force with members at various universities has been dedicated to creating and testing a model for the integration of technology with collaborative teaching and learning (Treadwell, Leach, Kellar, Lewis & Mittan, 1998). The task force believes that traditional classroom settings, restructured to incorporate technology, offer more than information exchange and acquisition of knowledge. They provide places where students have the opportunity to be learners actively working together on a specific learning objective. Therefore, this model has used the Internet as a collaborative tool connecting university-level students in varied disciplines and at distant sites.

Project "Netbased Multimedia" Between Estonia And Norway

Authors:

Sirje Virkus Tallinn
University of Educational Sciences, ESTONIA
Hilding Sponberg
Gjovik College, NORWAY

Abstract:

Based on funding from Norwegian Research Council and on Estonian Science Foundation Grant, a project on "Netbased Multimedia", is being implemented during 1998/99, for groups of students and teachers at Tallinn University of Educational Sciences (TUES), Estonia, and Gjøvik College, Norway. The objectives of this project are to study and evaluate the possibilities of joint international courses and the copying of learners in a new information and communication technology (ICT) based learning environment. The course "Netbased Multimedia" integrate a number of ICT tools for the presentation of students' group work for remote audiences. The integrated media tools, such as document camera, video, CD-ROM, Internet, has been used in the project. The students learn about the strengths and limitations of ICT, camera technique, audio and light conditions, design of the videoconferencing studio, one-to-one and multipoint videoconferencing, etc. The course includes a number of online connections with international experts within this area of technology. The course is based on high level of interactivity among students and teachers in Estonia and Norway. The project is also a basis for research on the pedagogical and psychological aspects of international collaboration and will give a valuable experience for the further development of collaborative learning and teaching in Nordic-Baltic countries.

Collaborative Learning in a Networked Classroom

Author

Jane Lasarenko, PhD
Assistant Professor of English
West Texas A & M University Canyon, Texas

Overview

Personal reflection on the exerience of teaching two sections of Freshman Literature and Composition, our second semester writing requirement, in a new electronic classroom.