Global Climate Exchange: Peer collaboration in a “Global classroom”
This paper reports on student peer collaboration in an online environment in an international shared curriculum, the Global Climate Exchange. Four cohorts of students (age 16 -19) from Canada, China, Norway and Sweden (n=157) were engaged in four wiki-based activities where they collaborated with pe...
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description | This paper reports on student peer collaboration in an online environment in an international shared curriculum, the Global Climate Exchange. Four cohorts of students (age 16 -19) from Canada, China, Norway and Sweden (n=157) were engaged in four wiki-based activities where they collaborated with peers locally and internationally. Previously, impact from Global Climate Exchange on students’ conceptual understanding was analysed, indicating a positive impact which might be explained by the amount of interactions with peers and international peer collaboration. This paper looks further into the details of the students’ peer interactions in terms of how they communicate in the online Global Climate Exchange learning environment. The study revealed that communication between international peers might be more constructive than when communication is limited to national peers. This might be a possible explanation for our previously findings indicating that international peer collaboration may well be an approach to enhance students’ conceptual understanding of climate change. |
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spelling | doaj.art-60d72e3c6f1744e39bffaa81db729dbd2022-12-22T03:07:50ZdanUniversity of OsloNordina: Nordic Studies in Science Education1504-45561894-12572014-04-0110110.5617/nordina.538Global Climate Exchange: Peer collaboration in a “Global classroom”Majken Korsager0James D Slotta1Doris Jorde2Department of Teacher Education and School Research (ILS) University of Oslo, Norway Phone: +47 22844913Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto 252 Bloor St. W. Toronto, ON M5S 1V7 CanadaNorwegian Centre for Science Education, NorwayThis paper reports on student peer collaboration in an online environment in an international shared curriculum, the Global Climate Exchange. Four cohorts of students (age 16 -19) from Canada, China, Norway and Sweden (n=157) were engaged in four wiki-based activities where they collaborated with peers locally and internationally. Previously, impact from Global Climate Exchange on students’ conceptual understanding was analysed, indicating a positive impact which might be explained by the amount of interactions with peers and international peer collaboration. This paper looks further into the details of the students’ peer interactions in terms of how they communicate in the online Global Climate Exchange learning environment. The study revealed that communication between international peers might be more constructive than when communication is limited to national peers. This might be a possible explanation for our previously findings indicating that international peer collaboration may well be an approach to enhance students’ conceptual understanding of climate change.https://journals.uio.no/nordina/article/view/538Climate changeinquiry-based international peer collaboration16-19 yearsclassroom study |
spellingShingle | Majken Korsager James D Slotta Doris Jorde Global Climate Exchange: Peer collaboration in a “Global classroom” Nordina: Nordic Studies in Science Education Climate change inquiry-based international peer collaboration 16-19 years classroom study |
title | Global Climate Exchange: Peer collaboration in a “Global classroom” |
title_full | Global Climate Exchange: Peer collaboration in a “Global classroom” |
title_fullStr | Global Climate Exchange: Peer collaboration in a “Global classroom” |
title_full_unstemmed | Global Climate Exchange: Peer collaboration in a “Global classroom” |
title_short | Global Climate Exchange: Peer collaboration in a “Global classroom” |
title_sort | global climate exchange peer collaboration in a global classroom |
topic | Climate change inquiry-based international peer collaboration 16-19 years classroom study |
url | https://journals.uio.no/nordina/article/view/538 |
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