1st Progress Report
Questions about WebCT.doc
Diwan -Interview.pdf
Gerhard-Interview.pdf
Sebastian-Interviews.pdf
Questions about Wikis.doc
IR.doc
Independent Research Progress Report #1
Nathan Campbell, Lisa Doan, Kirill Kireyev Malte Winkler
3/8/06
Current Progress
In the last week our group has been able to interview four instructors about the use of collaboration in the classroom. The interviewees include: Gerhard Fischer, Michael Main, Sebastian De La Chica, and Amer Diwan.
The information obtained by these interviews have given us great insight into the Professors point of view of student collaboration, as well as both positive and negative aspects of the different tools they use (or don’t use) to allow their students to collaborate. The informal transcript and summaries of these interviews can be found on the Collaboration Independent Research Wiki Page (http://l3dswiki.cs.colorado.edu:3232/dlc-2006/61)
We are also looking into the previous research of William Beachley, Jun Chen, Huda Khan, Sarah Kim-Warren, Scott Zweig on the topic of Collaborative Learning in Classroom (DLC 2004). We plan to incorporate their research into our own in order to continue to build on the subject of Collaboration and its use in a classroom setting.
Changes In Schedule
We are currently on schedule.
Group Work To Be Completed
The following tasks still have to be completed:
*Complete all of the interviews by the end of the week (3/10)
*Summarize the Collaborative Learning in Classroom Project