Nomadic Computing Project: Supporting Collaborative Teams in Education Anthony Joseph, James Landay, and Francis Li Supported by Intel and the NSF September 18, 2001

A New Learning Paradigm is Needed Colleges experiencing significant growth (15% for UCB!) Lecture-style learning doesn’t scale well loss of interaction web-based lecture replay is insufficient unfortunately, scaling lectures is cost effective

Team-based Learning Team and project-based learning have led to good outcomes in engineering education students work in small groups for project & course work lecturers as facilitators lots of collaboration Even harder to scale than lecture-style learning supporting collaborative teams is hard feedback and direction on work resolving social conflicts hard to monitor teams

Solution: Pedagogical Changes & Tool Support Pedagogical changes mentors, explicit peer review Laptop-based tools support the existing process mobile computers facilitate face to face team work add a coordination framework awareness of group’s status, milestones, schedule self-assessment of work efforts

Students Self Report Allows reflection Individual progress time spent working on project action items peer review Team progress meeting summaries major milestones Milestones Action items Time spent Peer review

Instructor View

Student Use of Laptops