Lin2k: A novel web-based collaborative tool-application to engineering education
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Engineering Education Research Environmental Engineering |
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Teaching and Learning Research Center |
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Reference - Educational Research Paper |
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| Description: | Abstract: In this paper we present the educational process of Lin2k, a Web-based tool, which supports distant asynchronous, written, peer-collaboration in a case study. The tool constitutes an open learning environment that endows engineering students with collaborative competencies, necessary for their successful shift to professional practice. Students are engaged in a process of experiential learning of collaboration while, in parallel, we follow up their interactions and collect communication data of interest. Lin2k collaboration evaluating and adaptive feedback mechanisms are aimed at equipping students with the necessary conceptual knowledge that underlies collaborative activity. Lin2k experimental uses in the Civil Engineering Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, proved the efficacy of its pedagogy. The Lin2k educational process serves as a prototype that may contribute to the revision of engineering curricula so as to face the challenges that the new technologies impose, along with the necessity of relating academic to professional life. <citation>Sofia J. Hadjileontiadou, Haralambos N. Sakonidis, George J. Balafoutas; Lin2k: A novel web-based collaborative tool-application to engineering education; Journal of Engineering Education; 92; 4; 313-324; 2003</citation> |
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| Is Component of: |
Journal of Engineering Education |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(k) Use modern engineering tools in engineering practice Higher Order Thinking Skills Professional Skills |
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Asynchronous Case studies Collaborative/cooperative learning Other Other Web-based |
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Outcomes Evaluation <Higher Order Thinking Skills>With a series of successive structural levels, [Lin2k] constitutes an educational environment that increases significantly the possibilities of higher-order thinking and professional skills improvement, by providing the context for experiential learning and by challenging cognitive and metacognitive functions. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of data collected during the experimental use of Lin2k by a sample of undergraduate engineering students verified its efficiency.</Higher Order Thinking Skills> <Professional Skills>With a series of successive structural levels, [Lin2k] constitutes an educational environment that increases significantly the possibilities of higher-order thinking and professional skills improvement, by providing the context for experiential learning and by challenging cognitive and metacognitive functions. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of data collected during the experimental use of Lin2k by a sample of undergraduate engineering students verified its efficiency.</Professional Skills> |
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Medium |
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Very low |
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| Publication Date: | October 2003 |
| Platform/Format: |
Cross Platform |
| Cost: |
Not free |
| Download URL: | http://www.asee.org/publications/jee/PAPERS/display.cfm?pdf=787.p |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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Pr2ove-It
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