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Teaching IT professional practice with virtual teams

conference contribution
posted on 2008-01-01, 00:00 authored by Naomi Catharine Augar, Annegret Goold
The ability to communicate effectively as part of a virtual team working in the online environment is a valuable skill to have in the modern e-workplace. Such skills can be difficult to develop in undergraduate students. This paper reports on a professional practice unit situated in a web 2.0 environment that aims to develop students' teamwork skills. The paper also reports on research that sought to gain understanding of the student experience of interacting online in virtual teams. The results showed that students value the virtual teamwork experience, finding it useful and relevant for their future careers. The student perceptions of various aspects of virtual teamwork have improved with each subsequent offering of the unit.

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Event

Australasian Society For Computers In Learning In Tertiary Education. Conference (2008 : Melbourne, Vic.)

Pagination

41 - 44

Publisher

ASICILITE Melbourne

Location

Melbourne, Vic.

Place of publication

Melbourne, Vic.

Start date

2008-11-30

End date

2008-12-03

ISBN-13

9780980592719

Language

eng

Publication classification

E1 Full written paper - refereed

Editor/Contributor(s)

R Atkinson, C McBeath

Title of proceedings

ASCILITE 2008 : Hello! Where are you in the landscape of educational technology? : Proceedings of ASCILITE 2008

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