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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…mehr

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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.
"This book, by Robert Ubell and his excellent team of collaborators, adds an important dimension to effective teaching and learning in online environments. It addresses how interaction and collaboration online can be effectively harnessed in virtual teams. It is an important contribution to the larger field of Internet-based education." --Frank Mayadas, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation How to create and manage highly successful teams online With the advent of the global economy and high-speed Internet, online collaboration is fast becoming the norm in education and industry. This book takes online collaboration to the next level, showing how you can bolster online learning and business performance with the innovative use of virtual teams. Written by a team of experts headed by online learning pioneer Robert Ubell, Virtual Teamwork covers best practices for online instruction and team learning, reveals proven techniques for managing enterprise and global virtual teams, and helps you choose the best communication tools for the job. Educators, project managers, and anyone involved in teaching online courses or creating online programs will find a wealth of tips and techniques for building and managing successful virtual teams, including guidance for: * Integrating team instruction in the virtual classroom * Using best techniques for team interaction across borders and time zones * Structuring cost-effective, competitive projects that work * Leveraging leadership, mentoring, and conflict management in virtual teams * Conducting testing, grading, and peer- and self-assessment online * Managing corporate, global, and engineering virtual teams * Choosing the right technologies for effective collaboration
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Autorenporträt
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.
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"Based on best practices generated over the last decade, VirtualTeams reveals how to manage teams successfully, with chapters onhow to build intimate virtual relationships and how to communicatecreatively online." (Certification Magazine, 1 May 2011)

"This collection of expert perspectives, edited byenterprising-learning professor Robert Ubell, offers a practicalguide to virtual teamwork". (Nature, 23 December 2010)

"This work is for educators, project managers, and anyone elseinvolved in teaching online courses or creating online programs. Itdescribes best practices for online instruction and team learning,and offers advice for managing enterprises and building globalvirtual teams. Contributors come from backgrounds in instructionaldesign, instructional technology, international documentation,training, information systems, and leadership." (Book NewsInc, November 2010)