BENCHMARKING THE WORLD WIDE WEB IN STUDENT COLLABORATION

The introduction of new communication technologies such as the World Wide Web is creating unique opportunities for civil engineering educators to develop new classroom collaboration methods, where student teams can interact remotely in a virtual team environment. Whereas traditional project collaboration requires regularly scheduled face-to-face meetings, technologies such as the Web are introducing concepts such as asynchronous collaboration, remote videoconferencing, and centralized information centers. These remote forms of collaboration introduce a unique set of questions and issues into the civil engineering domain, such as the efficiency of the technology and the appropriateness of the technology. This paper introduces one approach to examining these issues through the use of benchmarks developed specifically for analyzing remote collaboration within Web-based teams. The paper introduces and summarizes results from the first 4 years of a benchmarking study focusing on Web-based collaboration technologies within the civil engineering classroom.

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  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Chinowsky, P S
• Publication Date: 1999-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 254-260
• Serial:
  • Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0887-3801

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benchmarks; Civil engineering; Communications; Cooperation; Education and training methods; Information technology; Internet; Teams; Websites (Information retrieval)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Videoconferencing
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Education and Training; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00770116
• Record Type: Publication
• Contract Numbers: EG-05-03-06, IRI-9630021
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 7 1999 12:00AM