Self-Organizing Units in an Interdisciplinary Course for Pervasive Computing Design
| dc.contributor.author | McNair, Lisa D. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Newswander, Chad | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Coupey, Eloise | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Dorsa, Edward A. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Martin, Tom | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Paretti, Marie C. | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Engineering Education | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-05T19:23:09Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2018-03-05T19:23:09Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-06 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | We conducted a case study of a design course that focused on bringing together students from engineering, industrial design, and marketing to use pervasive computing technologies to design, coordinate, and build a “smart” dorm room for disabled individuals. The class was loosely structured to encourage innovation, critical thinking and interdisciplinarity. In this environment, teams were created, disassembled, and re-created in a self-organizing fashion. With few norms, teams were expected to be interdisciplinary, form quickly, and work together by creatively integrating their disciplinary expertise. In observing this semester-long class, we found certain conditions that will enhance pedagogical tools designed to expedite team formation and improve collaborative practices in a classroom setting. Similar to open source software development, we found that groups can form randomly in a loosely coordinated environment that is both self-managing and self-directing if instructors create a strong normative foundation to the class. In this case study, we observed that the applied concept of self-organizing buffered with strong faculty input invests group members with a greater commitment to be productive, effective, and innovative. | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/82442 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | ASEE | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 2009 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Interdisciplinary collaboration | en |
| dc.subject | Group formation | en |
| dc.subject | Self-organizing units | en |
| dc.title | Self-Organizing Units in an Interdisciplinary Course for Pervasive Computing Design | en |
| dc.type | Conference proceeding | en |
| dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |