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

Author

Serçe, Fatma Cemile ; Alpaslan, Ferda Nur ; Swigger, Kathleen ; Brazile, Robert ; Dafoulas, George ; Lopez, Victor

Author_Institution

Univ. of Atilim, Ankara, Turkey

fYear

2010

fDate

April 29 2010-May 1 2010

Firstpage

247

Lastpage

253

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Internet; computer science education; distributed programming; further education; project management; software engineering; software management; distributed learning teams; global software development projects; global student teams; globally distributed student teams; higher education; online collaboration; project management; Cities and towns; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computer science education; Cultural differences; Distributed computing; Globalization; Guidelines; Problem-solving; Programming; Computer-supported collaborative learning; collaborative skills development; computer-mediated communication; distance education; distributed teams;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET), 2010 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cappadocia

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4810-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITHET.2010.5480079

Filename

5480079