A Research on Remote Teamwork in Computer Oriented Internship for Industrial Design Education

Abstract

Industrial designers work with different people in their professional lives. In order to train industrial designers, the acquisition of these skills and their implementation to current working styles must be studied. This study evaluated the distant group work experience of the first-year students of the Atılım University Industrial Design Department during their summer internship. Within the scope of the research, the students' end-of-training reports were analyzed by the content analysis method. The findings were discussed in terms of group work and distance education in industrial design education.

Keywords

• teamwork
• remote teamwork
• industrial design education
• internship

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