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

Software / Digital Media

250 Seiten

2010
Wiley-Blackwell (Hersteller)
978-0-470-61578-2 (ISBN)

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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.

ROBERT UBELL is Vice President, Enterprise Learning, NYU Polytechnic Institute. Earlier, he launched Stevens Institute of Technology's online graduate program, winner of the Sloan Prize as the "best online learning program" in the nation. Ubell was editor of The Sciences, American Publisher of Nature, and a senior executive at leading publishers. He has written or edited five books and more than fifty scholarly articles and received grants from numerous prominent foundations. He serves on the Board of the Sloan Consortium.

Acknowledgements. Contributors. Foreword ( Frank Mayadas ). Preface ( Jerry M. Hultin ). Dewey Goes Online ( Robert Ubell ). PART 1: Managing Virtual Teams. 1 Building Virtual Teams ( Edward Volchok ). 2 Leadership ( Michael Ryan ). 3 Peer and Self-Assessment ( Paul Resta and Haekyung Lee ). 4 Mitigating Conflict ( Richard Dool ). 5 Virtual Teams in Very Small Classes ( Elaine Lehecka Pratt ). PART 2: Virtual Team Technology. 6 Choosing Online Collaborative Tools ( Kit Brown-Hoekstra, Brenda Huettner, Char James-Tanny, and Phylise Banner ). 7 Communication Technologies ( Anu Sivunen and Maarit Valo ). PART 3: Enterprise and Global Teams. 8 Teaming Across Borders ( Richard Dool ). 9 Global Corporate Virtual Teams ( Christine Uber Grosse ). 10 Corporate Virtual Teaming ( Luther Tai ). 11 Virtual Engineering Teams ( Doug Vogel, Michiel Van Genuchten, Carol Suanders, And A.-F. Rutkowski) ). Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.7.2010
Vorwort	Frank Mayadas, Jerry Hultin
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	448 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10	0-470-61578-8 / 0470615788
ISBN-13	978-0-470-61578-2 / 9780470615782
Zustand	Neuware