Lee, Y., & Deboer, J., & Rhoads, J. F., & Berger, E. J. (2021, July), The Affordance of Computer-Supportive Collaborative Learning in a Dynamics Course  Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. 10.18260/1-2--37835

\bibitem{asee_peer_37835}
  Lee, Y., \& Deboer, J., \& Rhoads, J. F., \& Berger, E. J. (2021, July), \emph{The Affordance of Computer-Supportive Collaborative Learning in a Dynamics Course}
  Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference.
  10.18260/1-2--37835

Yonghee Lee, Jennifer Deboer, Jeffrey F. Rhoads, and Edward J. Berger.  "The Affordance of Computer-Supportive Collaborative Learning in a Dynamics Course".  2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference, 2021, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2021.  https://peer.asee.org/37835 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_37835}
  Yonghee Lee, Jennifer Deboer, Jeffrey F. Rhoads, and Edward J. Berger.
  "The Affordance of Computer-Supportive Collaborative Learning in a Dynamics Course".
  \emph{2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference, 2021, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2021.
  https://peer.asee.org/37835 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Over the past two decades, educators have used computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) to integrate technology with pedagogy to improve student engagement and learning outcomes. Researchers have also explored the diverse affordances of CSCL, its contributions to engineering instruction, and its effectiveness in K-12 STEM education. However, the question of how students use CSCL resources in undergraduate engineering classrooms remains largely unexplored. This study examines the affordances of a CSCL environment utilized in a sophomore dynamics course with particular attention given to the undergraduate engineering students’ use of various CSCL resources. The resources include a course lecturebook, instructor office hours, a teaching assistant help room, online discussion board, peer collaboration, and demonstration videos. This qualitative study uses semi-structured interview data collected from nine mechanical engineering students (four women and five men) who were enrolled in a dynamics course at a large public research university in Eastern Canada. The interviews focused on the individual student’s perceptions of the school, faculty, students, engineering courses, and implemented CSCL learning environment. The thematic analysis was conducted to analyze the transcribed interviews using a qualitative data analysis software (Nvivo). The analysis followed a six step process: (1) reading interview transcripts multiple times and preliminary in vivo codes; (2) conducting open coding by coding interesting or salient features of the data; (3) collecting codes and searching for themes; (4) reviewing themes and creating a thematic map; (5) finalizing themes and their definitions; and (6) compiling findings. This study found that the students’ use of CSCL resources varied depending on the students’ personal preferences, as well as their perceptions of the given resource’s value and its potential to enhance their learning. For example, the dynamics lecturebook, which had been redesigned to encourage problem solving and note-taking, fostered student collaborative problem solving with their peers. In contrast, the professor’s example video solutions had much more of an influence on students’ independent problem-solving processes. The least frequently used resource was the course’s online discussion forum, which could be used as a means of communication. The findings reveal how computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments enable engineering students to engage in multiple learning opportunities with diverse and flexible resources to both address and to clarify their personal learning needs. This study strongly recommends engineering instructors adapt a CSCL environment for implementation in their own unique classroom context. 
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AU  - Jennifer Deboer
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AU  - Edward J. Berger
CY  - Virtual Conference
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TI  - The Affordance of Computer-Supportive Collaborative Learning in a Dynamics Course
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