ICT support for students’ collaboration in problem and project based learning

This paper reports and analyses quantitative and qualitative data from a study, which seeks a better understanding of how students use various technologies to support their project collaboration activities in a problem and project based learning environment. More generally the aim of the study, and the present paper, is to shed light on students’ technology practices within higher education – particularly in relation to problem and project based learning. The reasons for undertaking these studies are that we aim to develop a mobile application to support the students’ problem and project based learning. The methods are an online survey, narrative reflections, observations and interviews. The analysis reports the differences in collaboration practices of students with different levels of experiences with the pedagogy and students from different faculties at Aalborg University. The results show students in problem and project based learning environment use several tools to support their group work and they have potential to adopt mobile technology to enhance their group work collaboration. Additionally, the results also lead to discussions about how to provide a better group working