Collaborative technologies in global engineering: new competencies and challenges

• Autores: Mats Daniels, Åsa Cajander, Tony Clear, Roger McDermott
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 31, no. Extra 1 (Parte B), 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Engineering Education: Beyond Technical Skills Part II—Case Studies Linked to the Promotion of Specific Technical Skills), págs. 267-281
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Educational institutions face many challenges in closing the gap between what is currently offered through academicengineering curricula and what is expected by society in general and industry in particular. There are many aspects to thesechallenges and here we address needs that are specific to global professionals by investigating the knowledge, skills andabilities needed for mediating and using Collaborative Technologies (CT) in an Open EndedGroup Project (OEGP) withina global setting. We discuss these needs as framed by relevant theoretical frameworks for collaboration and learning(including Collaborative knowledge building and Collaborative Technology Fit), mapped using empirical data from acourse setting involving global collaboration between two Universities (one in the United States and one in Sweden). Thepaper concludes with a commentary on competencies beyond discipline specific technical skills and presents recommenda-tions, based upon this research, for developing students’ proficiency in both mediating and using CTs in OEGP courses.These recommendations are followed by an outline of key areas for future research.