Joint effects of gender composition, anonymity in communication and task type on collaborative learning

PACIS 2007 - 11th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Managing Diversity in Digital Enterprises

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Liu, Na ^a   Lim, John ^a   Zhong, Yingqin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Anonymous communication; Collaborative learning; Gender composition; Task types

Indexed keywords

ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION; COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; GENDER COMPOSITION; JOINT EFFECT; LEARNING GROUPS; LEARNING OUTCOME; TASK TYPE; THREE COMPONENT;

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 80053514262     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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