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Strategies and Guidelines for Building Effective Distributed Learning Teams in Higher Education
Date
2010-05-01
Author
Swigger, Kathleen
Alpaslan, Ferda Nur
Brazile, Robert
Dafoulas, Georges
Cabrera, Victor Lopez
Serçe, Fatma Cemile
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The paper describes the strategies and guidelines for building effective global student teams based on the experiences obtained from six global software development projects involving 438 students from the universities in the US, Panama, UK, and Turkey. According to the findings obtained from these projects, the factors affecting online collaboration and the problems faced during management of projects are given in the paper. It is hoped that these findings will help to instructors to design and manage globally distributed student teams. The paper also provides guidelines for students to become a good team player.
Subject Keywords
Collaborative skills development
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Computer-mediated communication
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Computer-supported collaborative learning
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Distance education
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Distributed teams
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/72788
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2010.5480079
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9th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET 2010) (29 Nisan - 01 Mayıs 2010)
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K. Swigger, F. N. Alpaslan, R. Brazile, G. Dafoulas, V. L. Cabrera, and F. C. Serçe, “Strategies and Guidelines for Building Effective Distributed Learning Teams in Higher Education,” presented at the 9th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET 2010) (29 Nisan - 01 Mayıs 2010), Cappadocia; Turkey, 2010, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/72788.
