Collaboration in the 21st Century

Scott Campbell, Associate Professor, Journalism, Film, & Entertainment Arts

Cynthia Sistek-Chandler, Ed D Associate Professor, Teacher Education, Educational Technology

#CCCOTC15 @cynthiachandler

http://tinyurl.com/otccampbellchandler

Goals and Objectives

• What is 21st Century Collaboration?• Share best practices of collaboration

• Institutional

• Program Specific

• Personal Storage

• Share some research

• Continue to share and collaborate

• Model the use of collaborative and sharing web 2.0 tools throughout the session

What is 21st Century Learning?

U.S. News

21st Century Learning in K12 Classrooms Four C's

Reinventing Education: You Tube Video Tony

Wagner at (co)lab Summit 2013

Collaboration

"... tools for collaboration and human to human interaction are once again in the limelight. As the proliferation of collaborative learning tools and resources occurs at an ever faster rate, educators are having difficulty keeping up. For those expecting students to collaboratively brainstorm, share, and negotiate knowledge, <there > are wiki tools like Wikispaces and PBworks...Others might choose Google Docs or Meeting Words for document co-creation."

(Bonk & Khoo, 2015, Tec-Variety, p. 184)

Collaboration and Knowledge Representation

" To represent knowledge, students could collaboratively build concept maps, glossaries, timelines, and hypermedia-based forms of representation. And for course content discussion and question-and-answer sessions, there is Piazza <Kahoot, Quia, Quizlet, etc.>."

(Bonk & Khoo, 2015, Tec-Variety, p. 185)

Sharing and Collaboration

Professor Campbell's YouTube

Collaboration: Asynchronous & Synchronous

• Shared online videos and animations• Flipgrid, Vialogues, Voice Thread • Voki, Blabberize, & Animoto

• Synchronous conferencing tools for learner interaction• Skype, Google Hangouts, Adobe

Connect, and Blackboard Collaborate

Collab Vocab Game Kahoot.it

How To Geek? Upload Download, Save As and other definitions and How To's!http://www.howtogeek.com/199099/save-drive-space-by-offloading-local-files-to-the-cloud/?

What is the Cloud?

Name Collaborative Cloud Based Apps

How are YOU collaborating at your institution?

Today's Meet (Back Channel)

https://todaysmeet.com/OTC2015ChandlerCampbell

Twitter

Use hashtag for conference with tweets about session #CCCOTC15

@cynthiachandler

Ways we are Collaborating at NU

• Institutional and Programmatic

• Institution• Program Annual Review with Taskstream

• CurricuNET- Collaborative build of catalog and courses• Program Specific

• Google Drive• Moodle

• MS 365

The Research on Collaboration

Serdyukov & Sistek-Chandler (2015)Communication, Collaboration, and Relationships in the Online College Class: Instructors’ Perceptions

"93% of respondents believe online learning allows for collaboration and cooperation among students. It looks like instructors highly regard the

potential of online classes for teamwork, even if it is not often realized."

Journal of Research Innovation and Teaching

Download entire Journal at: http://www.nu.edu/assets/resources/pageResources/journal-of-research-in-innovative-teaching-volume-8.pdf

The Research on Collaboration

Anand, B., Hammond, J., Narayanan, V. G.

"The lack of face-to-face interaction might help overcome certain biases and behaviors that arise — often unintentionally — in our traditional classrooms”

Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas"...studies comparing the performance of matched groups on physical and virtual sessions indicate that….virtual brainstorming enhances creative performance – versus in-person brainstorming sessions – by almost 50% of a standard deviation.”

The Research on CollaborationThe Wisdom of Crowds

James Surowiecki

Based on Surowiecki’s book, Oinas-Kukkonen captures the wisdom of crowds approach with the following eight conjectures:

1. It is possible to describe how people in a group think as a whole.

2. In some cases, groups are remarkably intelligent and are often smarter than the smartest people in them.

3. The three conditions for a group to be intelligent are diversity, independence, and decentralization.

4. The best decisions are a product of disagreement and contest.

5. Too much communication can make the group as a whole less intelligent.

6. Information aggregation functionality is needed.

7. The right information needs to be delivered to the right people in the right place, at the right time, and in the right way.

8. There is no need to chase the expert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds

Google Drive

• Overview

• Synchronous & asynchronous content creation and

collaboration

• Apps: Word Processing (docs), Spreadsheet (sheets)

Slideshow (slides)

• Collaborative assignment example

Google Drive

https://support.office.com/en-us/learn/office365-for-business/scenario-store-sync-and-share-your-content

Why Microsoft Video?

Evernote

• Note taking

• Collaborative File Sharing

• Device and OS agnostic

• Robust feature• Premium - $50 a year

• Best Practice with students

• Collaborative research, sharing scholarly articles on a common topic

Evernote

Roovy: Visual, Collaborative Pods

One new way you are going to implement a collaborative strategy in

an online or blended course.

Scholarly-Peer Reviewed ResearchAnand, B., Hammond, J., Narayanan, V. G. What Harvard Business School Has Learned About Online Collaboration From HBXhttps://hbr.org/2015/04/what-harvard-business-school-has-learned-about-online-collaboration-from-hbx

Brumbaugh, K., Calhoon, E., Mussalam, R. & Pronovost, R. (2014). Creating a Google Apps Classroom: The Educator's Cookbook, Online Collaborative Tools through the University of Michigan, Center for Research and Teaching: http://www.crlt.umich.edu/oct

Broussard, S. C., & Garrison, M. E. B. (2004). The relationship between classroom motivation and academic achievement in elementary school-aged children. Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, 33(2), 106–120. Carroll, J. A., Diaz, A., Meiklejohn, J., Newcomb, M., & Adkins, B. (2013). Collaboration and competition on a wiki: The praxis of online social

Case, R. (2005). Moving critical thinking to the main stage. Education Canada, 45(2): 45–49. Dillenbourg, P. (1999). What do you mean by ‘collaborative learning?’ In P. Dillenbourg (Ed.), Collaborative-learning: Cognitive and Computational Approaches (pp.1–19). Oxford: Elsevier. Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas, Why Brainstorming Works Better Online, https://hbr.org/2015/04/why-brainstorming-works-better-onlineFacione, P. A. (1990). Critical thinking: A statement of expert consensus for purposes of educational assessment and instruction. Millbrae, CA: The California Academic Press.

Gottfried, A. E. (1990). Academic intrinsic motivation in young elementary school children. Journal of Educational Psychology, 82(3), 525–538. Martinez, M. E. (2006). What is metacognition? Phi Delta Kappan, 87(9), 696–699.Preparing 21st Century Students for a Global Society, An Educator ’s Guide and References: National Education Association (NEA), 2012.

Schraw, G., Crippen, K. J., & Hartley, K. (2006). Promoting self-regulation in science education: Metacognition as part of a broader perspective on learning. Research in Science Education, 36, 111–139.

Surowiecki, James, The Wisdom of Crowds, 2004, Anchor Books Publishing, New York, NY.

Van Boxtel, C., Van der Linden, J., & Kanselaar, G. (2000). Collaborative learning tasks and the elaboration of conceptual knowledge. Learning and Instruction, 10(4), 311–330.