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Dowdall, Shane; Hlobaz, Artur; Milczarski, Piotr; O'Reilly, Derek; Podlaski, Krzysztof; Stawska, Zofia – Informatics in Education, 2021
The development of communication and other soft skills among computer science students is not usually an easy task. Often, curricula focus on technical skills, with team projects being used for the improvement of communication skills. However, these teams usually comprise solely of computer science students. In this paper, we present a didactical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Soft Skills, Skill Development
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Saloranta, Tiina; Lo¨nnqvist, Jan-Erik; Eklund, Patrik C. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
In our upper-level undergraduate laboratory course in organic chemistry we focus on a research-oriented task in a context-based and problem-based learning approach. The course starts with a preliminary training period where the students learn how to safely and independently perform synthesis and purification procedures and to operate the most…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Undergraduate Study, Student Research
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Nissilä, Säde-Pirkko; Virkkula, Esa – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2015
PBL is learning through becoming conscious of practical and abstract problems and finding ways how to solve them. It can be a pattern which doesn't follow traditional divisions of disciplines. In this article the material was collected from two, in the first sight, very different groups. One was music students (N = 62) who had to learn to solve…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Musicians, Engineering, Problem Solving
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Weinberger, Armin; Marttunen, Miika; Laurinen, Leena; Stegmann, Karsten – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2013
Collaborative learners are often meant to be guided by collaboration scripts to identify, discuss, and resolve differences of opinion and knowledge. How learners engage in and resolve conflict, however, may be highly dependent on learners' cultural background. In this article, we examine the extent to which a peer-critique collaboration script…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Electronic Learning, Conflict
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Akpinar, Murat; del Campo, Cristina; Eryarsoy, Enes – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2015
This study investigates the effects of collaboration and competition on students' learning performance in a course of business statistics. The collaboration involved a simultaneously organised group competition project with analysis of real-life business problems among students. Students from the following schools participated: JAMK University of…
Descriptors: Competition, Teamwork, International Studies, Statistics
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Kumpulainen, Kristiina; Kaartinen, Sinikka – Journal of Experimental Education, 2003
The authors investigated the microlevel processes of collaborative reasoning in heterogeneous peer dyads working on an open-design task in elementary geometry. Special attention was paid to the nature of student social interaction, problem-solving strategies, and mathematical language and how they shape collaborative problem-solving processes.…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Problem Based Learning