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ERIC Number: EJ1052951
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0304-3797
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Students' Use of the Interactive Whiteboard during Physics Group Work
Mellingsaeter, Magnus Strøm; Bungum, Berit
European Journal of Engineering Education, v40 n2 p115-127 2015
This paper presents a case study of how the interactive whiteboard (IWB) may facilitate collective meaning-making processes in group work in engineering education. In the case, first-year students attended group-work sessions as an organised part of a basic physics course at a Norwegian university college. Each student group was equipped with an IWB, which the groups used to write down and hand in their solutions to the physics problems. Based on a Vygotskian, dialectical stance, this study investigates how the students used the IWB in the group-work situation. From qualitative analysis of video data, we identified four group-work processes where the IWB played a key role: exploratory, explanatory, clarifying and insertion. The results show that the IWB may facilitate a 'joint workspace', a social realm in which the students' dialogues are situated.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Norway
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