How does net-based interdisciplinary collaboration change with growing domain expertise?

Authors:
Nikol Rummel;Sabine Hauser;Hans Spada
Affiliations:
Institute of Psychology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany;Institute of Psychology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany;Institute of Psychology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Venue:
CSCL'07 Proceedings of the 8th iternational conference on Computer supported collaborative learning
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This study examined how growing domain expertise influences net-based interdisciplinary collaboration of persons with medical and psychological background. We compared the quality of the collaborative process and the joint solution of interdisciplinary dyads of different expertise levels (advanced students, trainees, and experts) working on a patient case. To assess the quality of the collaborative process, a rating scheme developed by Meier et al. (in press) was used. Additionally, process log files measuring individual and joint time and number of work phases were gathered, and joint solutions were analyzed. As had been assumed, the experts scored lower than the less experienced dyads in most measures of collaborative process. Looking in more detail at the less experienced dyads revealed that the trainee dyads outperformed the student dyads in most of the process variables. Analyses of process logfiles revealed the same pattern regarding the number of phases used. The predictions for the quality of the joint solution were more difficult and the results for these variables more mixed.