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RIDE rules for effective collaboration

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Description

The RIDE rules — Respect, Intelligent collaboration, Deciding together, and Encouraging — are communication rules summarizing essential characteristics of effective collaboration, derived by Saab et al. (2007) from a literature review and adapted for this study's vocational target group. The article states they "reflect communicative activities that are seen as essential for effective collaboration" and formed the basis for the definition of effective collaboration, driving both the classroom instruction's content and the reflection tool's assessment items and sub-rules (e.g., share relevant information, check if everyone agrees before acting, encourage others to participate).

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Students need to know the RIDE rules; the instruction explains each rule's relevance with good and poor examples before collaboration begins.

Constraints

  • The rules were originally tested as support for synchronous distance communication by Saab et al. (2007), not face-to-face vocational classrooms.

Target Learners

  • First-year technical secondary vocational (MBO) students

Learning Goals

  • Collaboration skills and effective communication during collaborative inquiry learning

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Elise H. Eshuis, Judith ter Vrugte, Anjo Anjewierden, Lars Bollen, Jakob Sikken, Ton de Jong. (2019). Improving the quality of vocational students' collaboration and knowledge acquisition through instruction and joint reflection. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (2019) 14:53–76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-019-09296-0
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title RIDE rules for effective collaboration
description The RIDE rules — Respect, Intelligent collaboration, Deciding together, and Encouraging — are communication rules summarizing essential characteristics of effective collaboration, derived by Saab et al.
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