Nomadic Computing Project: Supporting Collaborative Teams in Education

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Nomadic Computing Project Supporting
Collaborative Teams in Education

• Anthony Joseph, James Landay, and Francis Li
• Supported by Intel and the NSF
• September 18, 2001

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A New Learning Paradigm is Needed

• Colleges experiencing significant growth (15 for
  UCB!)
• Lecture-style learning doesnt scale well
• loss of interaction
• web-based lecture replay is insufficient
• unfortunately, scaling lectures is cost effective

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Team-based Learning

• Team and project-based learning have led to good
  outcomes in engineering education
• students work in small groups for project
  course work
• lecturers as facilitators
• lots of collaboration
• Even harder to scale than lecture-style learning
• supporting collaborativeteams is hard
• feedback and direction on work
• resolving social conflicts
• hard to monitor teams

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Solution Pedagogical Changes Tool Support

• Pedagogical changes
• mentors, explicit peer review
• Laptop-based tools
• support the existing process
• mobile computers facilitate face to face team
  work
• add a coordination framework
• awareness of groups status, milestones, schedule
• self-assessment of work efforts

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Students Self Report

• Allows reflection
• Individual progress
• time spent working on project
• action items
• peer review
• Team progress
• meeting summaries
• major milestones

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Instructor View
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Student Use of Laptops