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Informing Science + IT Education Conference 2003 Proceedings
| Informing Science + IT Education Conference |
| Pori, Finland June 24-27, 2003 |
| Collaborative Learning as a Vehicle for Learning about Collaboration |
| University of South Australia, Australia |
| This paper explores the development and delivery of a Masters course titled ‘Collaboration and E-Commerce’. The |
| course examines a variety of issues relating to E-Commerce with the major focus being upon collaborative aspects |
| of web-related business activities. The aim of the course is to lead students to engage in actual collaborative |
| processes and so to provide them with practical experience to support the theoretical aspects of the subject. The |
| paper outlines the issues behind the design of the learning struc-ture that was used to promote both intra-group and |
| inter-group collaborative action. Although the course is currently run in face-to-face mode with no web support it |
| had to be designed in such a way that the learning structures and processes would translate to a web-enabled form for |
| Keywords: IS Education, collaborative learning, e-commerce |
ISSN
1535-07-03
Unless otherwise indicated, this paper has undergone blind external review by three or more reviewers.
Types of Papers: A Best Paper, Regular Paper, Short Paper, Informal Paper,
Unrefereed Panel Paper
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