Virtual Teamwork - Mastering the Art and Practice of Online Learning and Corporate Collaboration
Published on 15. July 2010
Software
Other digital
250 pages
978-0-470-61578-2 (ISBN)
Description
Distance learning is the fastest-growing sub-sector within higher education globally. Virtual Teams focuses on ideas and success factors that can assist professors in developing successful team-building strategies and team activities in the virtual learning space. The text offers key elements of successful virtual teaming, including how to manage teams, benefits gained, pedagogy, technical issues, building relationships, and more. The guidance, best practices, and strategies will provide professors, administrators, and professionals in agencies and corporations with a thorough understanding of what is involved and how to apply the most effective techniques successfully.
Reviews / Votes
"Based on best practices generated over the last decade, Virtual Teams reveals how to manage teams successfully, with chapters on how to build intimate virtual relationships and how to communicate creatively online." (Certification Magazine, 1 May 2011) "This collection of expert perspectives, edited by enterprising-learning professor Robert Ubell, offers a practical guide to virtual teamwork". (Nature, 23 December 2010) "This work is for educators, project managers, and anyone else involved in teaching online courses or creating online programs. It describes best practices for online instruction and team learning, and offers advice for managing enterprises and building global virtual teams. Contributors come from backgrounds in instructional design, instructional technology, international documentation, training, information systems, and leadership." ( Book News Inc , November 2010)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
448 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-61578-2 (9780470615782)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Robert Ubell
Virtual Teamwork
Mastering the Art and Practice of Online Learning and Corporate Collaboration
E-Book
12/2010
Wiley
€56.99
Available for download
Robert Ubell
Virtual Teamwork
Mastering the Art and Practice of Online Learning and Corporate Collaboration
E-Book
07/2010
Wiley
€56.99
Available for download
Persons
ROBERT UBELL is Vice President, Enterprise Learning, NYU Polytechnic Institute. Earlier, he launched Stevens Institute of Technology's online graduate program, winner of the Sloan Prize as the "best online learning program" in the nation. Ubell was editor of The Sciences, American Publisher of Nature, and a senior executive at leading publishers. He has written or edited five books and more than fifty scholarly articles and received grants from numerous prominent foundations. He serves on the Board of the Sloan Consortium.
Content
Acknowledgements. Contributors. Foreword ( Frank Mayadas ). Preface ( Jerry M. Hultin ). Dewey Goes Online ( Robert Ubell ). PART 1: Managing Virtual Teams. 1 Building Virtual Teams ( Edward Volchok ). 2 Leadership ( Michael Ryan ). 3 Peer and Self-Assessment ( Paul Resta and Haekyung Lee ). 4 Mitigating Conflict ( Richard Dool ). 5 Virtual Teams in Very Small Classes ( Elaine Lehecka Pratt ). PART 2: Virtual Team Technology. 6 Choosing Online Collaborative Tools ( Kit Brown-Hoekstra, Brenda Huettner, Char James-Tanny, and Phylise Banner ). 7 Communication Technologies ( Anu Sivunen and Maarit Valo ). PART 3: Enterprise and Global Teams. 8 Teaming Across Borders ( Richard Dool ). 9 Global Corporate Virtual Teams ( Christine Uber Grosse ). 10 Corporate Virtual Teaming ( Luther Tai ). 11 Virtual Engineering Teams ( Doug Vogel, Michiel Van Genuchten, Carol Suanders, And A.-F. Rutkowski) ). Index.