DocumentCode :
3093216
Title :
Community building and virtual teamwork in an online learning environment
Author :
Beer, Martin ; Slack, Frances ; Armitt, Gillian
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. & Manage. Sci., Sheffield Hallam Univ., UK
fYear :
2003
fDate :
6-9 Jan. 2003
Abstract :
In the world of OTIS, an online Internet school for occupational therapists, students from four European countries were encouraged to work collaboratively through problem based learning by interacting with each other in a virtual semi-immersive environment. This paper aims to explore the issues that (1) there was little interaction between students from different tutorial groups and (2) virtual teamwork developed in each of the cross cultural tutorial groups. Synchronous data from European students was captured during tutorial sessions and peer booked meetings and evidence suggests that communities of interest were established. It is possible to conclude that collaborative systems can be designed, which encourage students to build trust and teamwork in a cross cultural online learning environment.
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; distance learning; groupware; OTIS; collaborative learning; community building teamwork; occupational therapists; online Internet school; online learning; problem-based learning; virtual teamwork; Cities and towns; Collaborative work; Computer science; Cultural differences; International collaboration; Internet; Medical services; Medical treatment; Online Communities/Technical Collaboration; Teamwork;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 2003. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1874-5
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2003.1173639
Filename :
1173639
Link To Document :
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