TY - GEN
T1 - Interventions to enhance multinational collaborative projects as a project-based learning experience
AU - Esparragoza, Ivan Enrique
AU - Rodriguez, Jorge
AU - Evans, Maria J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Multinational collaborative projects have been used as a project-based learning approach to prepare students with professional and global skills in engineering. However, the implementation of those projects is challenging due to the complexity of having students geographically dispersed, with different languages, cultures, time zones, and backgrounds, and using information and communication technology (ICT) tools to facilitate collaboration in a multinational project. The purpose of this work is to identify relevant issues affecting the effectiveness of multinational collaborative projects as a project-based learning experience and provide the corresponding interventions to improve such academic practice. Expected outcomes of the interventions are summarized and examples of the results of some interventions already implemented are presented. The challenge of dealing with different issues inherent in this type of initiative can jeopardize the learning experience of the students, transforming what can be a positive experience into a negative one.
AB - Multinational collaborative projects have been used as a project-based learning approach to prepare students with professional and global skills in engineering. However, the implementation of those projects is challenging due to the complexity of having students geographically dispersed, with different languages, cultures, time zones, and backgrounds, and using information and communication technology (ICT) tools to facilitate collaboration in a multinational project. The purpose of this work is to identify relevant issues affecting the effectiveness of multinational collaborative projects as a project-based learning experience and provide the corresponding interventions to improve such academic practice. Expected outcomes of the interventions are summarized and examples of the results of some interventions already implemented are presented. The challenge of dealing with different issues inherent in this type of initiative can jeopardize the learning experience of the students, transforming what can be a positive experience into a negative one.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-40274-7_89
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-40274-7_89
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85084181135
SN - 9783030402730
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 915
EP - 923
BT - The Impact of the 4th Industrial Revolution on Engineering Education - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL2019 – Volume 1
A2 - Auer, Michael E.
A2 - Hortsch, Hanno
A2 - Sethakul, Panarit
PB - Springer
T2 - 22nd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL 2019
Y2 - 25 September 2019 through 27 September 2019
ER -