Facilitating Online Student Group Work Assignments
This paper reports a case study on the facilitations of online student group work assignment within oncampus and distance education. There is prior research that explores the use of technology for distance education. However, research that explores how to facilitate distance education group work assignment through the use of technology- is limited. Being different from on-campus students, distance education students work in online group assignments with detrimental constraints of disparate locations and time differences. This research adopts a qualitative case study method. It explored distance education student group work performance in a subject In particular, it investigated the role of a teacher in facilitating distance education students in completing their group assignments in an information technology course. The findings indicate that the facilitation could be more challenging in distance education than on-campus student education. The paper proposes various ways to facilitate online group work to enable distance education group work assignment success.
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Lisa Soon Campbell Fraser
School of Information & Communication Technology Central Queensland University Mackay Campus, Austra Department of International Business & Asian Studies Griffith University Logan Campus, Australia
国际会议
贵阳
英文
263-267
2011-01-26（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）