ERIC Number: EJ1007070
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
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A Mindtool-Based Collaborative Learning Approach to Enhancing Students' Innovative Performance in Management Courses
Wu, Chih-Hsiang; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Kuo, Fan-Ray; Huang, Iwen
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, v29 n1 p128-142 2013
Educators have indicated that creative teaching is the most important educational activity; nevertheless, most existing education systems fail to engage students in effective creative tasks. To address this issue, this study proposes a mind map based collaborative learning approach for supporting creative learning activities and enhancing students' innovative performance. An experiment has been conducted on a university management course to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The experimental results show that the proposed approach significantly enhanced the students' innovative performance in a project-based learning task. Such a finding not only provides evidence of the cultivability of innovative thinking, but also good references for those researchers who are interested in conducting creative learning activities. (Contains 3 tables and 5 figures.)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Learning Activities, Student Projects, Creative Teaching, Experiments, Experimental Groups, Innovation, Foreign Countries, Creativity, Handheld Devices, Control Groups, College Students, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, Technology Uses in Education, Pretests Posttests, Scores, Educational Technology, Information Technology, Business Administration Education, Planning
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Taiwan
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