Andreasen, Lars Birch

Hanghøj, Thorkild

Larsen, Birger

Winther, Frederikke

The poster presents preliminary hypotheses and findings of an on-going research project at Aalborg University, Denmark, which explores university students’ uses of collaborative writing tools like Google Docs when doing collaborative project work. The research project has a special focus on the various effects on the collaboration process of students’ various usage of the commenting functions of online writing tools.The poster received the Best Poster Award at the conference

    Aalborg UniversitetCOLWRIT – Collaborative Online Writing in Google DocsAndreasen, Lars Birch; Winther, Frederikke; Hanghøj, Thorkild; Larsen, BirgerPublication date:2014Document VersionPeer reviewed versionLink to publication from Aalborg UniversityCitation for published version (APA):Andreasen, L. B., Winther, F., Hanghøj, T., & Larsen, B. (2014). COLWRIT – Collaborative Online Writing inGoogle Docs: Presenting a Research Design. Poster session presented at The 13th European Conference on eLearning, Copenhagen, Denmark.General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright ownersand it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.            ? Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.            ? 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You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ?Take down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us at vbn@aub.aau.dk providing details, and we will remove access tothe work immediately and investigate your claim.Downloaded from vbn.aau.dk on: April 29, 2017COLWRIT – Collaborative Online Writing in Google Docs:Presenting a Research DesignLars Birch Andreasen, Frederikke Winther, Thorkild Hanghøj and Birger LarsenAalborg University Copenhagen, DenmarkStudy purpose• The emergence of online collaborative writing tools (e.g. Google Docs) opens up new opportunities when students are co-producing texts• The COLWRIT study (Collaborative Online Writing) explores how the collaboration and writing processes of university students are affected, when creating their shared text through the use of collaborative writing tools like Google DocsCollaborative writing processes• CW [collaborative writing] is an iterative and social process that involves a team focused on a common objective that negotiates, coordinates, and communicates during the creation of a common document. • The potential scope of CW goes beyond the more basic act of joint composition to include the likelihood of pre-and post task activities, team formation, and planning.• Furthermore, based on the desired writing task, CW includes the possibility of many different writing strategies, activities, document control approaches, team roles, and work modes.Lowry, Curtis & Lowry (2004)Mixed methods• Logging of all changes as well as all comments in student Google Docs• Automatic analysis and visualisation of collected data• Logging and analysis of project related closed facebook posts app• Pre and post surveys• Observation & video to capture complex interpersonal on/offline working processes• Interviews & focus groups to get students’ opinions and feedback• Diaries to capture students’ own reflections and important moments• Different student groups involved as informants and co-researchers• Study to be carried out during 12 weeks of problem based project work in fall 2014QuantitativeQualitativeExpected resultsWe expect to be able to:• Describe significant variation in the students’ approaches to collaborative online writing, especially in relation to the students’ different roles and different phases of the writing process• Understand different aspects of the groups’ collaboration and negotiation in relation to coordinating and creating a shared text• Understand the meaning and interplay of different online and offline resources (e.g. Google Docs, whiteboards, handwritten notes etc.) in relation to collaborative writing• Develop pedagogical guidelines for the use of Google Docs in relation to project work and collaborative online writing processesEthical implications• Agreed consent will be obtained from all informants (students) in relation to data logging and observations• All data will be anonymized• All informants (students) are invited to participate in a research seminar, where we present and invite for discussion of the preliminary findings of the studyThe tyranny of participation –the dark side of collaboration• To think that collaborative participation is always a liberating and emancipating mode or strategy is both a naïve and a utopian point of view.• Collaborative participation can lead to tyranny of the dominant and hence the reinforcement of oppression and control.• Especially in the absence of reflexivity and understanding of different ways and approaches to participation.cf. Ferreday & Hodgson (2008)• So what is being negotiated during the writing process: work and writing strategies? Or personal and participative legitimacy?• And how is it being negotiated: by open arguments or subtle indications?Presented at ECEL 2014 - the13th European Conference on e-Learning, 30-31 October, Aalborg University Copenhagen, DenmarkDrawings © 2014bySigne Birch Jensen

COLWRIT – Collaborative Online Writing in Google Docs:Presenting a Research Design

Various online collaborative writing tools have emerged giving students new opportunities when co-producing texts. The aim of this work-in-progress paper is to present the preliminary hypotheses and findings of an on-going research project at Aalborg University, Denmark, which explores university students’ uses of collaborative writing tools like Google Docs when doing collaborative project work. The research project has a special focus on the various effects on the collaboration process of students’ various usage of the commenting functions of online writing tools

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