A Strategy for Structuring Teams Collaboration in University Course Projects

Chukwuka Victor Obionwu, Maximilian Karl, David Broneske, Anja Hawlitschek, Paul Blockhaus, Gunter Saake

2023

Abstract

The increased demand in today’s work environment for individuals with diverse skill sets, fast skill acquisition, and ability to collaborate is as a consequence of the rapidly evolving technological environments. Thus, institutes of higher learning have increasingly adopted e-learning platforms, owing that one of the defining aspects of these platforms is the capacity to facilitate collaborative engagement. This adoption has resulted in curriculum changes, and the development of tools and further specialized platforms that are focused on the acquisition and transfer of particular soft, and hard skill sets. One such specialized platform is Teams platform of SQLValidator, a web-based interactive environment for learning, practicing, and acquisition of collaborative problem-solving skills by way of projects centered around the Structured Query Language. In this paper, we give insight into our platform, and the strategy we adopted to ensure the acquisition of SQL, and collaborative skills. To assess its effectiveness, we monitored the activity and performance of our students on an SQL based collaborative project. Our evaluation indicates that our strategy not only gave us practical insight into the student level of SQL skill acquisition, and interaction, which is important for instructors, but is also proved effective in facilitating the acquisition, and transfer of teamwork ethics and collaborative problem-solving skill among students.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Victor Obionwu C., Karl M., Broneske D., Hawlitschek A., Blockhaus P. and Saake G. (2023). A Strategy for Structuring Teams Collaboration in University Course Projects. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Smart Business Technologies - Volume 1: ICSBT; ISBN 978-989-758-667-5, SciTePress, pages 32-42. DOI: 10.5220/0012075800003552

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsbt23,
author={Chukwuka Victor Obionwu and Maximilian Karl and David Broneske and Anja Hawlitschek and Paul Blockhaus and Gunter Saake},
title={A Strategy for Structuring Teams Collaboration in University Course Projects},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Smart Business Technologies - Volume 1: ICSBT},
year={2023},
pages={32-42},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012075800003552},
isbn={978-989-758-667-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Smart Business Technologies - Volume 1: ICSBT
TI - A Strategy for Structuring Teams Collaboration in University Course Projects
SN - 978-989-758-667-5
AU - Victor Obionwu C.
AU - Karl M.
AU - Broneske D.
AU - Hawlitschek A.
AU - Blockhaus P.
AU - Saake G.
PY - 2023
SP - 32
EP - 42
DO - 10.5220/0012075800003552
PB - SciTePress