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Assessment of Interaction in Multinational Projects: A Gender Comparison |
Published in: | Proceedings of the 13th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology: Engineering Education Facing the Grand Challenges, What Are We Doing? | |
Date of Conference: | July 29 - 31, 2015 |
Location of Conference: | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
Authors: | Jaime Nuñez Ivan E. Esparragoza Sheila Lascano Jared Ocampo Jorge Duque Rivera Roberto Vigano
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Refereed Paper: | #125 |
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Abstract: |
The development of multinational collaborative
projects in the academia is becoming a practice to educate students
with global competencies. This educational approach is being used
to expose students to an international experience through projectbased
learning experiences in multinational settings. However, the
effectiveness of this approach has not been rigorously assessed. The
research team has been working in the understanding of this
practice to enhance the overall experience and create a learning
environment that fosters the development of global competencies.
According to the literature, the interaction among distributed teams
is critical in achieving the goals of the team. Therefore, the
interaction of students participating in multinational collaborative
projects has been a focus of interest for the research team. The aim
of this work is to compare, based on the gender, the level of
interaction of participants and the use of social interaction during
the development of a multinational design project. This paper
presents a description of the findings based on the data collected
and is the beginning of a subsequent inferential analysis.
Keywords—Collaborative projects, multinational, teams’
interaction.
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