NDLI: Developing global teamwork skills: The Runestone project

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Pears, A. Daniels, M.
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: Department of Computer Systems, University of Uppsala, Box 325, 751 05 Uppsala, Sweden (Pears, A.; Daniels, M.)
Abstract	The Runestone project is a collaborative course currently offered by Universities in Sweden, Finland, and China. The course provides a unique opportunity for third year engineering students from a variety of programs to experience the opportunities and challenges that international teamwork involves. Teams composed of students from two countries work intensively over a 10 to 13 week project cycle to develop a system which allows a user to remote-control a LEGO NXT robot. The teams negotiate the features of their final system with the academic supervisors from the participating Universities, propose a development time-frame and deliverables, and develop and demonstrate a prototype system. This paper uses teaching and learning findings from engineering education research. The evidence is used to arrive at an instructional design that aligns learning outcomes, with instruction and assessment to support student's learning outcomes development throughout the course, We also discuss the evolution of the course over the past 12 years as we moved from a pilot version with eight students from two universities to a large scale course with between sixty and eighty students from between three and five universities distributed over three continents and widely different educational and social cultures.
Starting Page	1051
Ending Page	1056
File Size	1050440
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424465682
e-ISBN	9781424465712
e-ISBN	9781424465705
DOI	10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492460
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-04-14
Publisher Place	Spain
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Global virtual teamwork Project management International collaboration Engineering skills Educating the global engineer Engineering education Prototypes Collaborative work Teamwork Large-scale systems Continents Engineering students Robots
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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