Introducing an Intergroup Competition Mechanism With Collaboration Scripts to Multitouch Collaborative Learning

• In Event: Instructional Technology Systems and Tools

Abstract

In order to support within-group collaboration and better deal with intergroup relationships in a multi-touch tabletop classroom, this study designed and introduced a real-time intergroup competition mechanism with collaboration scripts into a multi-touch learning platform, and examined its effects on teamwork performance, team product performance, and students’ learning achievement. This study employed a comparison group design, which evaluated the effects of collaboration scripts with and without intergroup competition. Fifty-three fifth-grade students from two classes at an elementary school in New Taipei, Taiwan, were assigned to the groups with and without intergroup competition. The results showed that students collaborating with intergroup competition had significantly better teamwork performance, team product performance, and learning achievement than those not collaborating with intergroup competition.

Authors

• Chiung-Hui Chiu, National Taiwan Normal University

• Cheng-Huan Chen, Asia University