The post methods era has witnessed a dramatic change inapproaches to and methods of teaching as well as testing. At the heart of such a change, collaborative learning has received top priority and testing domain has actually gone under scrutiny. This new mode of education has made stakeholders, especially in higher education; reflect on an interactive e-assessment based instruction. Such a cybe...

Self-, peerand collaborative-assessment are three innovative methods aiming to integrate learning and assessment and promote the active engagement of learners in the assessment process and in knowledge construction. This paper presents a web-based environment, referred to as PECASSE, which supports these assessment methods. In addition to the basic functions of uploading learners’ activities/re...

This paper presents the main findings from a collaborative community/university research project in Canada. The goal of the project was to improve access to community health information, and in so doing, enhance our knowledge of the development of community health information resources and community/university collaboration. The project built on a rich history of community/university collaborat...

The past decade has been characterized by increased scrutiny of outcomes of surgical and percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs). This increased scrutiny has led to the development of regional, state, and national databases for outcome assessment and for public reporting. This report describes the initial development of a regional, collaborative, cardiovascular consortium and the progress ma...

Students nowadays play major roles in the new culture of assessment where new forms of assessment have been adapted. Several labels have been used for assessment such as collaborative assessment, selfand peerassessment. In this paper, we will present a computer-assisted peer assessment system that can be used to improve the learning process. An overall architecture for this system will be prese...

Research into the benefits of collaborative work on learning have shifted from questions regarding whether it promotes learning, to research into the conditions that promote learning and the identification of processes that make collaborative group settings particularly effective. In this symposium we will present findings from recent research into a number of socio-cognitive processes that hav...

In this paper, an approach for developing a new theoretical platform and pilot environment for rapid distributed product design in extended enterprises using collaborative, autonomous agents. The approach is based on exchange of requests and information between design, engineering and facility agents. The resulting decisions are based on design criteria which are then optimized by an intelligen...

The notion of service-enhanced product brings new perspectives for value creation and differentiation in manufacturing. The existence of complex and highly customized products, the inclusion of business services that add value to the product typically require the collaboration of multiple stakeholders. It is natural that each stakeholder has its own set of values and preferences and as a result...

The wider acceptance and usage of instant messaging (chat) represents one of the consequences of undertaking Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) practices in formal education settings. However, the difficulty of analyzing these textual artifacts of learners in order to offer them feedback represents a serious problem in further extending the usage of chat conversations. PolyCAFe is...