Judi Harris has identified 6 reasons for doing telecollaborative projects:
- To practice information-seeking skills
- To become informed about a topic and/or answer a question
- To review multiple perspectives on an issue
- To generate data needed to explore a topic
- To solve authentic problems
- To publish information overviews for other students to use
For more detail check the source:
CHAPTER 3: In the Study -Teleresearch Web Sites Cited by Judi Harris
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~jbharris/Virtual-Architecture/Teleresearch/index.html#Purpose%201:
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