Middle-Stage Report of Operational Experiment of a Small-Size Digital CSCW System for Discussion and Decision-Making : How It Facilitates Participation to Discussion Under Anonymous Situation in Classroom

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  • 討議・意志決定支援のための小規模デジタルCSCWシステムの運用実験 : 中間報告-教室内での匿名条件下での討議への参加の促進効果について
  • トウギ ・ イシ ケッテイ シエン ノ タメ ノ ショウキボ デジタル CSCW システム ノ ウンヨウ ジッケン : チュウカン ホウコク キョウシツ ナイ デ ノ トクメイ ジョウケン カ デ ノ トウギ エ ノ サンカ ノ ソクシン コウカ ニ ツイテ

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A small CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) system was constructed, based on Microsoft's OneNote software's notebook sharing function, in order to facilitate students' participation to discussion and decision-making process in classroom seminars. Operational experiments were conducted in the author's sophomore seminar classes twice in 2012, one for a trial usage of the system, the other for a more structured discussion-oriented group work task. Though constructed by affordable hardware like small "netbook" PCs and home file-server, the system was quite effective for realizing OneNote's notebook sharing function. Due to some resource limitations, a full-fledged discussion toward problem solving was not yet tried, but students' active participations were greatly facilitated, with pretty positive user-responses being obtained after the experiments. The author's point is that in some social settings like undergraduate level seminars where everyone knows every other, certain anonymous situation is rather suitable for accelerating careful and self-and-other-oriented student's participation into discussion, because it can reduce social pressure that accompanies saying something in front of the acquaintance. Further operational experimentation is in need for more detailed examination of conditions that facilitate students' participations to classroom discussions.

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