The Effects of Collaborative Role-Playing on Ill-Structured Problem-Solving in a Computer-Mediated Learning Environment

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This study investigates the effects of collaborative role-playing on ill-structured problem-solving and also examines the attitudes of college students in a computer-mediated learning environment. Collaborative role-playing included specific roles that were related to a problem case about Internet copyright issues. Students were randomly assigned to a collaborative role-playing group and a collaborative learning group. Students in the collaborative role-playing group had more positive attitudes toward group-work and the solving of ill-structured problems. However, the collaborative role-playing group was not significantly different from the collaborative learning group requiring no such the role-playing in terms of two constructs of ill-structured problem solving: problem analysis and solution development.

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