Asynchronous collaboration: Achieving shared understanding beyond the first 100 meters

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sangwan, Raghvinder ^a,b   Jablokow, Kathryn ^c   Bass, Matt ^b   Paulish, Dan ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADAPTION INNOVATION THEORY; ASYNCHRONOUS COLLABORATION; COLLABORATING TEAMS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85029079198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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