Inspiring collaborative benefits: an interaction between a virtual and a physical group learning infrastructure

  • Authors:

  • Kyu Han Koh;Vicki Bennett;Alexander Repenning

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO;University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO;University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The physical environments are often limited for fostering and enriching creativity and collaborative benefits, especially in the educational context. In general, students have limited opportunities to experience peer-to-peer and group collaborative learning. Gaining knowledge, understanding and group interaction skills from a collaborative learning experience in a classroom are often rare. This paper introduces how a virtual environment can be combined with a physical environment to achieve collaborative benefits. We observed an online homework submission system that facilitated this collaborative process. Although this is only one example of one class, these observed collaborative benefits and the way that the virtual and physical environments combine to produce them could be useful for other courses where collaborative skills are necessary or desired.