Virtual Teamwork: Mastering the Art and Practice of Online Learning and Corporate Collaboration

Distance learning is the fastest–growing sub–sector within higher education globally. Virtual Teams focuses on ideas and success factors that can assist professors in developing successful team–building strategies and team activities in the virtual learning space. The text offers key elements of successful virtual teaming, including how to manage teams, benefits gained, pedagogy, technical issues, building relationships, and more. The guidance, best practices, and strategies will provide professors, administrators, and professionals in agencies and corporations with a thorough understanding of what is involved and how to apply the most effective techniques successfully.

Spis treści:
Acknowledgements.
Contributors.
Foreword by Frank Mayadas.
Dewey Goes Online (Robert Ubell).
Managing Virtual Teams.
Building Virtual Teams (Edward Volchok).
Leadership (Michael Ryan).
Peer and Self Assessment (Paul Resta and Haekyung Lee).
Mitigating Conflict (Richard Dool).
Virtual Teams in Very Small Classes (Elaine Lehecka Pratt).
Virtual Team Technology.
Choosing Collaborative Tools (Kit Brown–Hoekstra, Brenda Huettner, Char James–Tanny, and Phylise Banner).
Communication Technologies (Anu Sivunen and Maarit Valo).
Enterprise and Global Teams.
Teaming Across Borders (Richard Dool).
Global Virtual Teams (Christine Uber Grosse).
Corporate Virtual Teaming (Luther Tai).
Virtual Engineering Teams (Michiel van Genuchten, Anne–Françoise Rutkowski, Doug Vogel and Carol Saunders).