Patterns of communication and the implications for learning among two distributed-education student teams

  • Authors:

  • Kofi Amponsah

  • Affiliations:

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 21st annual international conference on Documentation
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In a recent pilot study of two Distributed-Education student teams, we learned how people collaborate in work groups. We identified different patterns of communication and the implications such interactions have for collaborative teams. An analysis of current practices in documentation by both teams was conducted, and it offered real world solutions for understanding effective communication interactions of academic and workplace teams in the creation of day-to-day documents. This study tries to answer questions such as, "What are the patterns of communication, and what consequences do these forms of communications have on the way student's learn in a collaborative or distributed teams and learning environments.