Roundtable(v): D&D-Perfect Match? Investigating Students’ Perceptions About Algorithmic Grouping in Higher Education

• In Event: Gallery Walk Showcase
  In Showcase Session: Gallery 11 - Design and Distance Learning in Higher Education

Short Description

Collaboration in virtual teams is considered crucial in the 21st century. Student characteristics impact learning as well as collaboration. To facilitate grouping considering students’ characteristics algorithmic approaches might be supportive. This proposal reports research findings from a qualitative study investigating students’ perceptions of algorithmic group formation for a project assignment. Findings indicate that students perceive the approach resulted in fair grouping, a good fit of skills among members, and was beneficial as groups were more diverse.

Authors

• Presenter: Clara Schumacher, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

• Contributor: Jakub Kuzilek, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin