Benefits and Challenges: Students’ perceptions of an online design collaboration
Fei Xue, James Housefield, Tim McNeil, and Margaret Merrill
Description
Our research team, comprising faculty and instructional designers, surveyed the students in a large design fundamentals class about their online collaborative experience throughout the three phases of their individual design projects. We share findings about the benefits and challenges students perceived during this collaboration. Our findings can empower instructors and researchers to build more engaging online learning experiences by including opportunities for student collaboration.
Link to the video: https://video.ucdavis.edu/media/SITT+2021+-+Benefits+and+challenges+during+online+collaboration/1_yqrs7vvu
About the Presenters
Fei Xue is a Ph.D. student in the School of Education at UC Davis. Her research focuses on instructional technology, human-computer interaction, and design thinking. Her current research projects include data-driven learning in Virtual Reality and students’ perception about online collaboration. Before coming to UC Davis, she received an MFA degree and an MHCI degree, and she was an acrylic artist and art & design instructor.
James Housefield is Associate Professor of Design and Affiliated Faculty in Art History whose research focuses on the variety of ways we design experiences. A curator and author of the monograph Playing with Earth and Sky: Astronomy, Geography, and the Art of Marcel Duchamp (Dartmouth, 2016), he continues to research the histories of design, modern art, and their intersections. His current manuscript-in-progress is titled An Introduction to Design in Society, and In the Studio: Making ethical design for the world as it is… and as it could be.
Tim McNeil is Professor in the Department of Design at UC Davis, and Director of the UC Davis Design Museum. He has spent 30 years as a practicing exhibition designer working for major museums, researching exhibition and experience design history and methods, and teaching the next generation of design thinkers.
Margaret Merrill, PhD, is a Senior Instructional Design Consultant at UC Davis. She consults with faculty and teaches workshops about using technology in pedagogically sound ways in face-to-face, hybrid, online, or emergency remote teaching. Margaret has presented on communities of practice, faculty development programs, mobile learning, and communities among language instructors. Previously, Margaret has taught junior high French and held a boom mic for the filming of a movie in Romania.
