Case 7: Collective knowledge in the classroom
Digital Libraries for Global Distributed Innovative Design, Education and Teamwork DIDET was led by the University of Strathclyde in the UK, Stanford University in the US and Olin College (2003-2008) to enhance learning opportunities by enabling students to participate in global team-based design engineering projects that give them experience of working within multi-cultural contexts and enable them to develop global design team working skills. The project highlighted the relationship between knowledge and information structures, the importance of integrating information literacy support, and the need for different systems within the learning environment to support formal and informal storage of resources.
How does collective learning take place –Design Engineering students source, share, use, reuse and create knowledge fragments to build ideas for their design assgnments http://www.didet.ac.uk/