A Digital Dashboard for Supporting Online Student Teamwork

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2019-11

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Ahuja, Rohan; Khan, Daniyal; Symonette, Danilo; desJardins, Marie; Stacey, Simon; Engel, Don; A Digital Dashboard for Supporting Online Student Teamwork; CSCW '19: Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing November 2019; https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3311957.3359490

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Abstract

Teamwork skills are crucial to college students, both at university and afterwards. However, few tools exist to monitor student teamwork and to help students develop teamwork skills. We present a tool which collects the interactions of students who are using online platforms to complete a sustained task as a team; conducts a range of analyses of these data; and then presents information about team and team member behaviors in real time on a digital dashboard. This dashboard provides instructors with a user-friendly picture of team and team-member dynamics, which can also be made available, as appropriate, to both teams and team members. While some behaviors have been shown to be (or are self-evidently) beneficial or harmful to team performance, these data and analyses also make possible exploration of whether less obvious behaviors affect team outcomes and performance.