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Title:
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STUDENTS PARTICIPATION AND PERFORMANCE IN AUNIVERSITY E-LEARNING PROJECT |
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Author(s):
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Manuel Cuadrado , María Eugenia Ruiz |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-42-3 |
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Editors:
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Miguel Baptista Nunes and Maggie McPherson (series editors: Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías and Nian-Shing Chen) |
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Year:
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2007 |
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Edition:
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V II, 2 |
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Keywords:
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E-learning, weblab systems, interdisciplinarity, university. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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12 |
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Last Page:
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16 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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In this current world characterized by globalization and new technologies, teaching and learning have also started to get
profit from it. Universities in the European context have been collaborating for the last decades through different
programs, mainly Socrates and Erasmus. New innovation projects have arisen in the university context to facilitate and
adapt students´ learning to a professional and social reality. New technologies have been useful in this context and online
platforms are being used for e-learning. It improves students abilities and skills.
Within the above context, an interdisciplinary collaboration project was held between two universities of different
countries: the London School of Economics (United Kingdom) and the University of Valencia (Spain). This project
aimed for cooperation and exchange of ideas among students from these two universities using new technologies.
Students of Business in English at the UV and students of Spanish and Economics at LSE had to work not only on
linguistic aspects but also generating debate on different economic and management topics. Collaboration, through a
webCT system, took place in Spanish for the topics proposed by LSE and in English for those ones programmed by UV.
All these activities were monitored by the corresponding teachers. Students had to hand in a final essay/assignment at the
end of the project with all the information provided by their partners. To facilitate the exchange of information, students
were conveniently grouped in fours.
The project started in February 2006 and lasted for six weeks. Results of the participation by students showed a great
interest since the usage rate was higher than expected. The average of total hits was 587 in four weeks. Interaction was a
reality. The essays assessment showed that students were able to use and structure the information provided by partners
after posing guided questions.
As a result of the estimation of several rank correlation coefficients and focused on the students of the University of
Valencia, a strong positive relationship is found between participation and implication of the students in the project and
their individual final grades in the course. Besides, the collaboration project allowed students from two different
disciplines and different universities not only to meet others with different backgrounds through an online system but also
to debate and get more information on other realities and improve their foreign language skills. |
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