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Distributed Collaboration in Project-Based Learning and Its Assessment in Next-Generation Learning Environments

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Distributed Collaboration in Project-Based Learning and Its AssessmentAdvances in technology historically have altered the ability of individuals to communicate with and to collaborate with one another (Hollingshead et al. 1993; Walther et al. 2015; Liao et al. 2018). The implications and opportunities for education have been and will continue to be profound (Collins and Halverson 2018). This entry introduces the nascent area of IT-mediated collaborative learning activities that focus on creating a product or an artifact and that involve virtual teams of individuals who work together, both synchronously and asynchronously, from geographically distinct locations (Hamilton 2018; Hamilton and Owens 2018; Lee et al. 2019). While contemporary society is accustomed to the anywhere/anytime nature of Internet-mediated communication, formal and informal education models have not yet substantially incorporated research-based approaches to virtual, project-based collaboration in...

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Hamilton, E., Kallunki, V. (2020). Distributed Collaboration in Project-Based Learning and Its Assessment in Next-Generation Learning Environments. In: Tatnall, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10576-1_59

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