ERIC Number: EJ818790
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1080-5699
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Teamwork through Team Building: Face-to-Face to Online
Staggers, Julie; Garcia, Susan; Nagelhout, Ed
Business Communication Quarterly, v71 n4 p472-487 2008
This article describes the ways the authors incorporated team-building activities into our online business writing courses by interrogating the ways that kinesthetic learning translates into the electronic realm. The authors review foundational theories of team building, including Cog's Ladder and Tuckman's Stages, and offer sample exercises they have converted. The authors show how the medium affects the exercises, how the choices made as teachers affect the exercises, and how they adjusted to meet the needs of their students. The authors argue that teamwork most successfully occurs after team building, and too often this team building is lacking in online environments. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Teamwork, Team Training, Online Courses, Business Communication, Writing Assignments, Learning Modalities, Synchronous Communication, Asynchronous Communication
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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