It's About Time: Temporal Structuring in Organizations
Organization Science
Human-Computer Interaction
A global software project: developing a tablet PC capture platform for explanograms
Koli '08 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computing Education Research
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Some recent experiences with Global Educational Collaborations have given me occasion to reflect on how sustainable such initiatives are, and whether they will over time become embedded in the fabric of modern University education, especially for courses such as Global Software Engineering. Swigger and colleagues argue to the contrary at least for now, observing that "technical barriers such as unreliable software and institutional regulations discourage most teachers from exploring distributed learning" [1]. But does this pessimistic view truly recognize the realities of the age? For Giddens "one of the dominant characteristics of modernity is the separation of time from space made possible by the standardization of time across the world", with "human efforts to standardize temporal frameworks inscribed in official time zones" [2]. Is a Global Collaboration then, inherently a product of the trend towards universal time, wherein time is the scarce resource of 'clock' time (based on what might be termed a temponomic world view [3, P.61].