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Our study examined using a computer-based learning game as a tool to facilitate teaching and learning teamwork skills. The game was applied to an undergraduate level human resource management course at a business school in Finland. We focused on students’ experiences and key learning outcomes of collaborative learning of teamwork skills through the game, and our analysis highlighted two key features of learning outcomes. First, the computer-based learning game promoted students’ self-reflection and evaluation of their individual team roles. Second, although the game taught students the importance of continuous information sharing in teamwork, their evaluation of team outcomes was performance driven; students predominantly took team efficiency as a sign of good teamwork. This case revealed the benefits and challenges of using computer-based learning games as a pedagogical tool. We identified what is required from lecturers and students for the game to be successful, and how team values other than performance could be learned through the game.

Cooperative learning is a structured way of small group working. The key elements are positive interdependence, individual accountability, promotive interaction, social skills and group processing. In this study, we create a new approach of networked cooperative learning, and examine how it contributes to the learning of digitalized accounting in real-life problem-solving cases. The interaction between digitalized accounting and cooperative learning has not been studied before. The data consist of qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data were gathered from group work, where accounting firms, their customers and students as well as teachers from two educational institutes worked together to find solutions to practical situations digitalized accounting may cause. The quantitative data were collected through a feedback survey with 51 respondents and studied in four groups. The research provides a descriptive content analysis. Our results indicate that networked cooperative learning is an appropriate method for working life collaboration in the context of digitalized accounting. We argue that cooperative learning is helpful in grasping difficult tasks without an exact goal at the beginning. We identified the well-known five key elements of cooperative learning and found two enhancing elements. Learning motivation and usefulness as well as the heterogeneity of the group have a positive impact on learning. peerReviewed

The aim of this article is to investigate how and what kinds of relational and shared practices were co-created within a multicultural team in a higher education collaborative learning environment. The students interacted while working towards the shared goal of co-constructing knowledge. The study provides insight into how student teams can actively build collaboration in learning spaces through manifesting relational leadership. Shared and relational practices refer broadly to all the knowledge, attitudes and skills that emerge from team interaction. A compound theoretical framework combining relational leadership and leadership trichotomy was adapted to study what particular factors enable shared and relational practices. The qualitative study drew data from students’ reflections and group discussions in an intervention which served as a space for experimentation in collaboration and dialogue. The results showed that the students practised Co-sensing and Co-shaping to effectively allow knowledge co-construction. A broadening perception of diversity and the perception that barriers were a doorway to new relational possibilities enabled Co-sensing and Co-shaping to work in collaboration. The results of the study could provide new insights for other kinds of higher education learning environments.

The aim of this study is to analyse diversity in team learning behaviour between and among national respondents’ perceptions during a military staff exercise (CJSE). Edmondson’s team learning behaviour model is used as the theoretical basis of the study. The results showed statistically significant differences both between and among national respondents’ perceptions. The research results indicate that team leader coaching, team psychological safety, the importance of obtaining expert knowledge as well as pre-exercise training are perceived to be crucial for team learning behaviour. The study has theoretical and practical implications for a more nuanced understanding of the diversity of team learning behaviour in the context of a multinational military teamwork exercise and for working as a part of multinational temporal teams in particular. peerReviewed

Entrepreneurship is considered to be a driving force behind nations’ economic development, and entrepreneurship education’s role is essential in shaping entrepreneurial attitudes, skills and culture. The objective of this study was to investigate students’ experiences of entrepreneurship education in a developing economy, especially as regards learning in and through teams. The research project was conducted in Namibia, where the challenges to breaking out of poverty are huge. Methodologically, the study was based on qualitative thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews (2009–2014) of higher education students ([Formula: see text]) taking part in an action-based, experiential entrepreneurship programme. In the analysis of students’ teamwork experiences, five main themes related to learning in and through teams emerged — the first three relating to individuals, the fourth to the team, and the fifth to wider social relations: (i) psychological safety, (ii) tolerance of uncertainty, (iii) strengthening of self-efficacy, (iv) strengthening of team-efficacy, and (v) understanding of others and other cultures. The outcomes may be utilised in establishing, developing and planning similar entrepreneurship education programmes across different cultural settings in developing economies.

Syksyllä 2013 Jyväskylän Sepän lukiossa toteutettiin Tiimilukio -hankkeeseen kuuluva kurssi ”KULTSI – kulttuurihistoriaa monipuolisesti”. Kurssilla yhdistettiin neljää eri oppiainetta (historia, äidinkieli, kuvaamataito ja englanti), ja oppiminen tapahtui tiimeissä tutkivan oppimisen menetelmää hyödyntäen. Tiimeissä opiskelulle ominaista on yhteisvastuullisuus, jäsenten sitoutuneisuus ja tuki toisilleen sekä tiimin jäsenten toisiaan täydentävät ominaisuudet. Kurssin tavoitteena oli tuottaa sellaisia uusia pedagogisia käytänteitä, jotka voisivat tukea lukiokoulutuksen kehittämistä. Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan tiimeissä opiskelun vaikutusta historian oppimiseen KULTSI -kurssin avulla. Tutkielman tarkoituksena on tuottaa tietoa siitä, miten tiimeissä opiskelu tukee tai haastaa historian oppimista, sekä miten historian opiskelu tiimeissä sopii lukiokontekstiin. Tutkielman lähdeaineisto perustuu opiskelijoiden kurssilla tuottamiin materiaaleihin, kurssista tehtyihin havaintoihin sekä opiskelijoiden haastatteluihin. Tiimeissä opiskelua voisi lähtökohtaisesti pitää hyvänä keinona tukea historian oppimista. Tiimioppimiseen kuuluvien keskustelujen, vertaisoppimisen ja tutkivaan oppimisen perustuvan työskentelytavan voi nähdä tukevan historian oppimisen aktiivisuutta ja historiallisten taitojen kehittymistä. KULTSI -kurssilla historian oppiminen oli kuitenkin vaihtelevaa, mikä osoitti sen, että tällaisen tiimeissä oppimisen tuen saavuttaminen ei ole yksinkertaista. Lukiokoulutuksen rakenteet ja niihin tottuminen, tiimien toimivuus ja historian opiskeluun soveltuvien työskentelytapojen löytyminen osoittautuivat kurssilla vaikeiksi. Vaikka kurssilla olikin omat vaikeutensa, osoitti kurssi kuitenkin sen, että tiimeissä opiskelulla on opiskelumuotona potentiaalia tukea historian oppimista.