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Getting There Together: Examining Patterns of a Long-Term Collaboration in a Virtual STEM Makerspace

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Advances in Quantitative Ethnography (ICQE 2021)

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This study examines the patterns of group discourse among adolescent students from Brazil and the United States collaborating virtually on a long term robotics project. Data comes from transcripts of four video conference call “meet-ups” that took place between November 2018–May 2019. Epistemic network analysis was used to examine the patterns of utterances over time which indicated a shift from facilitator guided discussions to collaborative idea generation among students. The results identify a shift towards a consolidation of ideas consistent with convergent thinking expressed in Online Collaborative Learning Theory.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge funding support from the US National Science Foundation (#1612824) for the work this paper reports. Views appearing in this paper do not reflect those of the funding agency.

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  1. Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 90263, USA

    Tiffany Wright, Luiz Oliveira, Danielle P. Espino, Seung B. Lee & Eric Hamilton

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Wright, T., Oliveira, L., Espino, D.P., Lee, S.B., Hamilton, E. (2022). Getting There Together: Examining Patterns of a Long-Term Collaboration in a Virtual STEM Makerspace. In: Wasson, B., Zörgő, S. (eds) Advances in Quantitative Ethnography. ICQE 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1522. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93859-8_22

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