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Cooperative Work in Virtual Environments. NL Conference 2002, Sheffield, United Kingdom Montse Guitert Ferran Giménez Joan Manuel Marquès Atanasi Daradoumis Teresa Lloret. The case of the Open University of Catalonia. The Open University of Catalonia.
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Cooperative Work in Virtual Environments • NL Conference 2002, Sheffield, United Kingdom • Montse Guitert • Ferran Giménez • Joan Manuel Marquès • Atanasi Daradoumis • Teresa Lloret The case of the Open University of Catalonia
The Open University of Catalonia • It was created in 1995 to provide distance learning university-level education. • It is a new model of university. The educational system is based on the concept of “virtual campus”. The virtual campus is supported by a communications network, overcoming time and space barriers and providing personalized contact between students.
Virtual Campus Students have access to different resources of the University
Goals 1 • To systematize cooperative working processes, in a virtual environment from a pedagogical viewpoint, to facilitate learning and apprenticeship processes to the student and teacher. • To identify the functionalities and adequate tools that help in cooperative working processes in virtual environments and adapt it to different proposals and learning situations. 2
Introduction • New spaces of learning open innovations which promotes the interaction and exchange. • Learning & Working in teams means the integration of knowledge, abilities, aptitudes and attitudes. • The net facilitates that the students can share and to participate in a teamwork, attending their own timetable and working space. • Agroup of teachers initiate strategies that provide a more agile interaction between teachers, students and the net resources.
The pilot experience: Case Study • A pilot experience of working and cooperative learning is underway in virtual environment within curricular design of four subjects with very different: • Objectives- Methodologies • Concepts - Timing
Main Contributions 1. Critical Phases in the development of a working-team in a virtual environment, concerning the students activities 2. Roles and tasks of the teachers on the working-team development 3. Tools for working on teams in a virtual environments
Requirements of the tool • Communication and information exchange (between the students and the teachers) • Team organization and management information.
Requirements of the work-spaces • The following elements are essentials to designing adequate cooperative work- spaces in a virtual environment: 1. Working Process: Phases of the team process, and activities of each phase 2. Kind of Communication: Asynchronous / Synchronous 3. Context: Classroom, Group, Personal space.
CONTEXT GROUP Personal CLASSROOM WORKING TEAM PROCESS TEAM FORM. Debate Board teacher Forum Tasks Space Schedule Agreement Space Debate Board Teacher Foulders Space Chat Sharere Board Applications Shared Personal Mailbox CONSOLI DATION Autoself Tool DEVELOP MENT CLOSING COMU NICA TION ASYNCHRO NOUS ASYNCHRONOUS SYNCHRONOUS ASYNCHRONOUS KIND COMMUNICATION
Attitudes Constancy Respect Compromising Transparency
Research Questions • What is the “state of art” about the theoretical bases on Learning & Working in a cooperative virtual environments? • Which are the interactions and which is the role who play teachers, students and technologies in cooperative situations? • What are the critic process on learning and working cooperative in virtual environments? • Which are the main tools for working in teams in a virtual environments?