Conference Session

Best of Computer in Education Division

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacob Bishop, Utah State University; Matthew A Verleger, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

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Computers in Education

) theory of psychological typesand Kolb’s learning styles. This model consists of five dimensions, with two extremes for eachdimension—the permutation yields 32 learning styles. These dimensions include perception, in-put, organization, processing, and understanding. Corresponding categories for teaching stylesare established along the dimensions of content, presentation, organization, student participation,and perspective.4.2 Peer-Assisted, Collaborative, and Cooperative LearningTopping and Ehly [73] define peer assisted learning as, “the acquisition of knowledge and skillthrough active helping and supporting among status equals or matched companions” (p.1). Thisbroad definition prepares us for the statement by Foot and Howe [25] , “Taken

Conference Session

Computers in Education (CoED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neelam Soundarajan, Ohio State University

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Computers in Education

HPLframework, being part of a close-knit community of learners, actively interacting with each other,can be of great help to the individual student in developing his or her knowledge and understand-ing of the particular discipline; we will elaborate on HPL later in this section. Given this, andgiven the potential that online technologies provide for interaction and collaboration, a number ofresearchers have, over the last several years, explored ways to exploit such technologies to effectcollaborative learning. These researchers have developed a number of tools and techniques, someof which we will briefly review later in the paper, and demonstrated their use in a variety of disci-plines and settings ranging from K-12 through college programs