Strategies and guidelines for building effective distributed learning teams in higher education

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...

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Published in2010 9th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET) pp. 247 - 253
Main Authors Serce, Fatma Cemile, Alpaslan, Ferda Nur, Swigger, Kathleen, Brazile, Robert, Dafoulas, George, Lopez, Victor
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.04.2010
Subjects
Cities and towns
Collaboration
collaborative skills development
Collaborative work
Computer science education
computer-mediated communication
Computer-supported collaborative learning
Cultural differences
distance education
Distributed computing
distributed teams
Globalization
Guidelines
Problem-solving
Programming
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Summary: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.
ISBN:9781424448104
1424448107
DOI:10.1109/ITHET.2010.5480079