The use of information technology to enhance management school education: a theoretical view
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on IS curricula and pedagogy
Teaching ICT to Pacific Island background students
ACE '04 Proceedings of the Sixth Australasian Conference on Computing Education - Volume 30
Motivational patterns in virtual team collaboration
ACE '05 Proceedings of the 7th Australasian conference on Computing education - Volume 42
Plans as situated action: an activity theory approach to workflow systems
ECSCW'97 Proceedings of the fifth conference on European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
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The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry is inherently a global industry. As such, it requires workers to collaborate across timezones and different cultures. There is little scope for undergraduates of ICT to directly experience this sort of cross-cultural environment whilst studying. The project outlined in this paper describes the need to introduce students to cross-cultural experiences in a work environment and how this was achieved using an online collaborative 3D virtual world. Students from 3 geographically distant institutions collaborated in the online construction of a 3D Tower of Babel. How they went about this and their inventive methods for overcoming cross-cultural communication difficulties is discussed. This paper forms the basis for a keynote talk at ICHL2011.