scholarly journals Collaborative Autoethnography: Best Practices for Developing Group Projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 104-114
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Robertson Hornsby ◽  
Allyson Davis ◽  
James Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Group Interaction ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
Group Projects

Collaborative Autoethnography (CAE) is an emerging practice that combines group interaction with qualitative research. Group projects are often deployed in course design to maximize the value of collaborative learning environments. Using existing scholarship, we describe best practices for group projects that apply principles of CAE. To advance the premise of the paper beyond descriptive summaries of pedagogical inquiry, we utilize a best practices mechanism to present a coherent guide for project collaborators to use in various classroom settings. The best practices proposed are research validated by existing CAE and project management literature.

Similar but Different: A Top-Down Benchmarking Approach to Investigate Nuclear Decommissioning Projects

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diletta Colette Invernizzi ◽  
Giorgio Locatelli ◽  
Naomi J. Brookes ◽  
Martin Grey
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Rocky Flats ◽  
Nuclear Decommissioning ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Nuclear Site ◽  
Recent Emergence ◽  
Management Literature

Project management literature has, until now, mainly focused on new build and only in the last decades the issues of decommissioning (mega) projects has arisen. To respond to this changing environment, project management will need to understand the challenges of decommissioning projects. Decommissioning projects within Oil & Gas, Chemical and Nuclear sectors are characterized by high costs, long schedules and uncertainty-based risks. The budget for Nuclear Decommissioning Projects and Programmes (NDPs) are subject to well publicized increases and, due to their relatively recent emergence, complexity and variety, key stakeholders lack a full understanding of the key factors influencing these increases. Benchmarking involves “comparing actual or planned practices [...] to identify best practices, generate ideas for improvement” [1] and offers significant potential to improve the performance of project selection, planning and delivery. However, even if benchmarking is the envisaged methodology to investigate the NDPs characteristics that impact on the NDPs performance, until now, it has only been partially used and there is a huge gap in the literature concerning benchmarking NDPs. This paper adapts a top-down benchmarking approach to highlight the NDPs characteristics that mostly impact on the NDPs performance. This is exemplified by a systematic quantitative and qualitative cross-comparison of two major “similar-but-different” NDPs: Rocky Flats (US) and Sellafield (UK). Main results concern the understanding of the alternatives of the owner and/or the contractors in relation to (1) the physical characteristics and the end state of the nuclear site, (2) the governance, funding & contracting schemes, and (3) the stakeholders’ engagement.

Project Initiation for Telemedicine Services

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia M. LeRouge ◽  
Bengisu Tulu ◽  
Suzanne Wood
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Telemedicine Service ◽  
Service Line ◽  
Strategic Vision ◽  
Management Literature

This study investigates project initiation for telemedicine, a technology innovation in healthcare organizations that manifests both intra- and inter-organizational collaboration. Moving from a telemedicine project to a sustainable telemedicine service line can be a challenge for many organizations (LeRouge, Tulu, & Forducey, 2010). Project definition (a.k.a., initiation) sets the strategic vision for a project and has been categorized as the most important stage in a project (C. Gray & Larson, 2008) and a key element for project success (Stah-Le Cardinal & Marle, 2006). Although project management best practices have been applied in many domains, there are few studies that link published best practices to the telemedicine domain. This study first presents a model, resulting from a review of project management literature that specifies the recommended components project definition. Using this model as a foundation, the authors explore how project definition is deployed in the telemedicine domain, using the instantiation of telestroke projects for this study. The authors base their findings on a multi-case qualitative data set, with each case representing a distinct telemedicine business model. Findings from this study explicate how the telestroke project initiation process is collaboratively managed and how this process impacts the overall success of the telemedicine programs through the lens of the five distinct telemedicine business models. Specifically, this study contributes insights on key elements of project initiation in the telemedicine context as well as the effects of the varying business models (focusing on commonalities and differences).

scholarly journals KISS: The Value of Simplicity in Online Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Justi Echeles
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Legal Compliance ◽  
Online Course Design ◽  
Online Learning Environments ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion

Keeping diversity and inclusion in mind throughout the process of online course design and delivery can be daunting to instructors, course developers, and content creators. These concepts, along with access equity and legal compliance, can seem distant from the principal objective of content presentation and instruction. Recent public health circumstances resulted in much of higher education’s move to remote learning. This reveals the need for quality online education that seeks to remove barriers and create challenging and engaging opportunities for all learners. This article presents research-based and established best practices and universal standards to help educators create accessible, usable, and inclusive online learning environments in a way that simplifies the process, meets rigorous standards, and improves the experience for all learners.

Applying genetic classifier systems for the analysis of activities in collaborative learning environments

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 704-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana I. Molina ◽  
Francisco Jurado ◽  
Rafael Duque ◽  
Miguel A. Redondo ◽  
Crescencio Bravo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Classifier Systems

scholarly journals Designing electronic collaborative learning environments

2004 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Kirschner ◽  
Jan-Willem Strijbos ◽  
Karel Kreijns ◽  
Pieter Jelle Beers
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Learning Environments

Analysis of the Collaborative Learning Application in Reading Material at Ninth Grade of SMPN 7 Kinali Pasaman Barat

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-88
Author(s):  
Sukini Sukini ◽  
Hilma Pami Putri
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Ninth Grade ◽  
The Other ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Object Based

This research was designed to find out and analyze of the collaborative learning application in reading material at ninth grade of SMPN 7 Kinali Pasaman Barat. This research conducted due to several problems found in the field which were students make a fuss when working in groups, students do not listen to given the assignment by the teacher. It can be seen that there were students who work on group assignments that care and others were just busy talking with others. This research was done in order to answer the research question “What were the role of student and what were the role of teacher in collaborative learning at the ninth grade of SMPN 7 Kinali Pasaman Barat?” This research was a qualitative research using collaborative learning strategy. The purpose of this research was to find out and analyze the collaborative learning applicationin reading material at the ninth grade of SMPN 7 KinaliPasaman Barat by analyzing the teacher’s and students’ role in the collaborative learning. The researcher used interview and observation as the instrument of the research. The interview was directed to both students and teacher, which for the students contained 12 questions and for the teacher contained 7 questions. The researcher took 2 classes namely IX1 and IX2 as the observation object.                    Based on the finding from interview and observation of the collaborative learning in SMPN 7 Kinali Pasaman Barat, it was found that the teacher already fulfilled her role in the collaborative learning effectively, in the other hand the students still lack of the role as the cheer leader. They still laughed at their friends mistake. Besides that, the other roles that the students supposed to have were already done effectively. As the conclusion, the collaborative learning in SMPN 7 Kinali Pasaman Barat was good since the students and the teacher were doing their role effectively

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