RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Assessing the individual acquisition of teamwork competence by exploring students’ instant messaging tools use: the WhatsApp case study
A1 Conde González, Miguel Ángel
A1 Rodríguez Sedano, Francisco Jesús
A1 Rodríguez de Lera, Juan Ramón
A1 Gutiérrez Fernández, Alexis
A1 Guerrero Higueras, Ángel Manuel
A2 Arquitectura y Tecnologia de Computadores
K1 Comunicación
K1 Educación
K1 Informática
K1 Teamwork competence
K1 Instant messaging tools
K1 WhatsApp
K1 Interaction in learning platforms
K1 5910.02 Medios de Comunicación de Masas
K1 5801.03 Desarrollo del Programa de Estudios
AB [En] Nowadays, working in groups is very usual and popular in most professional environments. Thus, students, as potential workers, need to acquire teamwork competence in their educational institutions. However, when the students are working in groups, it is easy assessing their final result but not so much evaluating how each of them, individually, is developing teamwork competence. In this sense, there are several methodologies, and those with better results are the ones that explore students’ interactions in learning platforms when developing the activity/project. Taking into account the latter, students’ interactions do not only happen in a learning platform but also using other tools such as instant messaging tools. This paper explores the possibility to assess the use of instant messaging tools for the acquisition of teamwork competence, and specifically, it presents a case study about the use of WhatsApp. From the results, we can conclude that the students prefer to use instant messaging tools in teamwork activities than other interaction tools as forums; and that the employment of those tools has a positive impact in students’ grades.
PB Springer
SN 1615-5289
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10612/18089
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10612/18089
NO Conde, M. Á., Rodríguez-Sedano, F. J., Rodríguez-Lera, F. J., Gutiérrez-Fernández, A., & Guerrero-Higueras, Á. M. (2021). Assessing the individual acquisition of teamwork competence by exploring students’ instant messaging tools use: the WhatsApp case study. Universal Access in the Information Society, 20(3), 441-450. https://doi.org/10.1007/S10209-020-00772-1
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD Jul 6, 2024