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Cross-cultural Online Learning Collaboration: Grouping Strategies and Assignment Designs
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, National Hsinchu University of Education, Taiwan ; , , University of Georgia, United States

EdMedia + Innovate Learning, in Toronto, Canada ISBN 978-1-880094-81-5 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the pedagogical strategies for cross-cultural collaboration. Two main research questions were: 1) How to better group the students for cross-cultural collaboration? 2) How to better design course assignments for cross-cultural collaboration? By comparing two collaborative groups which include college students from the United States and Taiwan, the researchers analyzed different grouping strategies and designs of assignment to see which group and what kind of assignment works better. The data analyzed were come from the results of the students’ learning satisfaction questionnaire, their reflection essays, and the grades of their course assignments. The primary findings showed that the students were very excited about the collaboration, but different time zones and the language barriers also caused some difficulties. Further data analysis is still ongoing, and the detailed findings and suggestions will be shared during the presentation.

Citation

Wang, C.M., Tsao, J.W. & Thomas, G. (2010). Cross-cultural Online Learning Collaboration: Grouping Strategies and Assignment Designs. In J. Herrington & C. Montgomerie (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2010--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 1589-1597). Toronto, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 28, 2024 from .

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