Using networked workshop system to enhance creative design

Abstract

This study examined the usefulness of networked workshop instruction, an instructional method that emphasizes presentation, discussion, evaluation, and knowledge construction. In workshop instruction, web-based peer assessment was used to evaluate students’ performance. Twenty-four computer and information science graduate students enrolled in a course “Web and Database Integration” and were assigned to nine teams. Each team was instructed to design a web-based system capable of performing certain functions. Functioning similar to how researchers and scientists would in a workshop, participants orally presented their ideas and web-based peer assessment was conducted to increase critical feedback during a team designs their own product. One creative products and qualitative comments from professors were presented to demonstrate the students’ high quality achievement.