Presentation Abstract: The Web offers unique opportunity for students from around the world to establish communicative relationships with each other. Two academics from Australia and the United States decided to explore its potential for learning and created collaborative online groups with their Australian and United States criminology students to supplement their conventional teaching programs. A free service from Google (Google groups) was used to create discussions about criminological topics. About six United States and six Australian students were assigned to work together on a group project of criminological interest. The pedagogical goal of this trial was to simultaneously engage the two student cohorts in active learning through a critical and reflective discourse. The topics for the group projects were stimulating criminal justice issues, relevant to the course content, which promoted high-order thinking leading to critical reflection by the students. Therefore, the aim was for the students to broaden their knowledge base and deepen their criminological understanding as they constructed knowledge through the shared experiences brought to the collaborative effort. From a combined class strength of n=120, ten groups were created on Google groups. The students had ongoing discussions and shared information over the web using documents, images and media as part of the assigned group project. At the end of about six weeks of collaborative work, the students created web pages relevant to their group topic right inside the Google group account. In order to assess the value of these online groups, both student cohorts filled out a questionnaire about their expectations prior to the collaborative process as well as their experiences post the group project. This paper provides a report of these findings. ... Technology: Google Groups ... Delivery Method: Asynchronous distance learning via internet/hybrid

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Education, Educational technology--Study and teaching, Computer-assisted instruction, Technology

10th annual faculty best practices showcase

Ranjan, Sheetal (Speaker), NJEdge.NET (Sponsor), College of Saint Elizabeth (Supporting host), William Paterson University

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