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Enhancing Collaborative Learning through Group Intelligence Software

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Employers increasingly demand not only academic excellence from graduates but also excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively in teams. This paper discusses the role of Group Intelligence software in helping to develop these higher order skills in the context of an enquiry based learning (EBL) project. The software supports teams in generating ideas, categorizing, prioritizing, voting and multi-criteria decision making and automatically generates a report of each team session. Students worked in a Group Intelligence lab designed to support both face to face and computer-mediated communication and employers provided feedback at two key points in the year long team project. Evaluation of the effectiveness of Group Intelligence software in collaborative learning was based on five key concepts of creativity, participation, productivity, engagement and understanding.

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  1. Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, M15 6PB, United Kingdom

    Yin Leng Tan & Linda A. Macaulay

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  1. The American College of Greece, Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. University of Oviedo, Spain

    Patricia Ordonez De Pablos

  3. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Adrian Ziderman

  4. De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

    Alan Roulstone

  5. Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media, Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Hermann Maurer

  6. Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA

    Jonathan B. Imber

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Tan, Y.L., Macaulay, L.A. (2010). Enhancing Collaborative Learning through Group Intelligence Software. In: Lytras, M.D., Ordonez De Pablos, P., Ziderman, A., Roulstone, A., Maurer, H., Imber, J.B. (eds) Knowledge Management, Information Systems, E-Learning, and Sustainability Research. WSKS 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 111. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16318-0_57

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