[AISWorld] Seeking Non-US Collaborators for Virtual Teams Project

[Subhasish Dasgupta]

Uhm

Subhasish Dasgupta, Ph.D.
George Washington University
dasgupta at gwu.edu

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On Jul 18, 2010, at 9:05 PM, Rosalie Ocker <rocker4855 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seeking Non-US Collaborators for Virtual Teams Project
>
> We invite you to have your class(es) participate in a multicultural  
> virtual team learning activity.  The project task focuses on  
> establishing information requirements for a multinational, non- 
> profit scenario and is designed to provide learning opportunities  
> for a variety of students including those focusing on IT, computer  
> science, business, engineering and the social sciences.  We invite  
> you and your students to participate.  We have run six successful  
> projects to date involving over ~2000 students from 8 countries and  
> 18 universities.
>
> The project will take five weeks to complete and will run from Oct 4 
>  – Nov 7.  Students work in small collocated subteams of ~ 5 members 
>  from their class; each subteam is paired with another subteam of ~5 
>  students from a class in another university to form an overall virt 
> ual team of ~ 10 students.  The project is well-structured, and incl 
> udes three learning modules on effective teaming in partially distri 
> buted teams, each with weekly content and group process activities a 
> nd deliverables (see https://collab.ist.psu.edu/pdtinfo).  The final 
>  project deliverable is a written report describing the functional r 
> equirements for the system, as well as prototype designs of the user 
>  interface and dashboard.
>
> Instructor support materials are included (e.g., weekly teaching  
> notes, ppt slides) and an online synchronous training session for  
> instructors is held prior to the start of the project.  Using a pre- 
> defined grading rubric, all assignments will be graded by assistants  
> at Penn State.  Of course, you are welcome to grade deliverables,  
> assign grades, and customize presentation of the materials to your  
> students.  To encourage evenness of participation across courses, we  
> ask all instructors to weight the project at least 15% of the course  
> grade.
>
> A system is provided to support team collaboration, using Moodle as  
> the platform (http://moodle.org/).  The collaboration system  
> includes a discussion board, file share/repository, chat, and a team  
> calendar, as well as all instructions and all project materials. It  
> supports both within-subteam and across-subteam work.  Instructors  
> can log on and view all project materials, as well as monitor their  
> students’ progress.  All administrator functions are handled by Penn 
>  State.
>
> Student comments regarding the project include:
>
> “I had a great time interacting with the US team members.”
> “I think that this was a good experience and that I will definitely  
> take away a lot of good lessons from this. I feel that I will be bet 
> ter prepared when I have to do something similar to this in the real 
>  world.”
> Comments from instructors include:
>
> ·       Thanks for the chance for me and my students to join the PDT 
>  project. I look forward to joining your next PDT project.
> ·       The teaching notes and training session were really  
> helpful…the project was smooth.
> ·       My students believe that this has been a positive experience.
> This is an exciting project that students both enjoy and learn  
> from.  Please contact Rosalie Ocker at rocker at ist.psu.edu for  
> further information.
>
> We look forward to you and your students joining this project.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Rosalie Ocker
>
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