Strategies and guidelines for building effective distributed learning teams in higher education

Authors:
Fatma Cemile Serçe;Ferda Nur Alpaslan;Kathleen Swigger;Robert Brazile;George Dafoulas;Victor Lopez
Affiliations:
University of Atilim, Ankara, Turkey;Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey;University of North Texas, Denton, Texas;University of North Texas, Denton, Texas;Middlesex University, Middlesex, England;Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, Panama City, Panama
Venue:
ITHET'10 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Information technology based higher education and training
Year:
2010

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Abstract

The paper describes the strategies and guidelines for building effective global student teams based on the experiences obtained from six global software development projects involving 438 students from the universities in the US, Panama, UK, and Turkey. According to the findings obtained from these projects, the factors affecting online collaboration and the problems faced during management of projects are given in the paper. It is hoped that these findings will help to instructors to design and manage globally distributed student teams. The paper also provides guidelines for students to become a good team player.