Constructing a virtual tower of Babel: a case study in cross-cultural collaboration across three continents

Authors:
Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland;Theodor Wyeld;Teng-Wen Chang
Affiliations:
Norwegian University of Science and Technology;Swinburne University of Technology;National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
Venue:
VSMM'07 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Virtual systems and multimedia
Year:
2007

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Abstract

The collaboration project described in this paper revolves around the construction of a virtual Tower of Babel in a 3D Collaborative Virtual Environment (3D CVE). It involved students across three cooperating institutions, on three different continents in different time zones. It addresses the increasing need for students to engage in international collaboration, as much of today's Information and Communication Technology work demands it. This requires cross-cultural understandings with one's co-collaborators, yet there are few opportunities for this to occur in a pedagogical setting. Therefore, this paper discusses a pedagogically-oriented case study of the use of a 3D CVE as a multi-cultural classroom, describing and discussing different phases in the cross-cultural collaborative process.