Teaching Technology Design for Collaborative Reflection Practices in Higher Education
Project Manager:
Gökçe Elif Baykal
Section:
Communication and Design
Research Areas:
Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction
Project Start Year:
2021
Project End Year:
2023
Phone:
0 (216) 564 9682
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About the Project:
Collaboration is considered as one of the 21st century skills. However, collaboration is a very complex skill which involves coordination, cooperation and at its most advanced level, reflective communication. In a time of pandemics, where remote collaboration has become radically more important, the need for designing and developing technologies that efficiently support collaborative interaction has become an even higher priority. This project aims to spread the knowledge gained in research on the design of collaborative technologies by the project partners, by developing teaching materials for higher education in designing technologies that support collaborative interaction mediated by technology.
Project Finding:
The main objectives of the project are to: a) analyse and study the current status of research, innovative and best practices on technology design for collaborative interaction, b) develop effective and innovative teaching and assessment materials and activities aimed at training students and practitioners in technology design for collaborative interaction, c) pilot the teaching and assessment resources with students at technology design programmes, d) make the teaching resources accessible to all by publishing them online as an OER, e) analyse transferability of results obtained from the pilot tests of the teaching resources in different cultural contexts, f) share the results of the project to a network of teachers at technology design programmes, and g) disseminate and share project results in sustainable ways.