TY - GEN

T1 - Learning to Lead Online Collaborations

T2 - 18th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2019

AU - Panteli, Niki

AU - Hjeltnes, Tor Atle

AU - Strand, Knut Arne

PY - 2019/9/30

Y1 - 2019/9/30

N2 - In this paper we present a virtual collaborative student project across two universities in the UK and Norway. The students involved were all Master students in Digital Innovation & Analytics and Digital Collaboration retrospectively. The project also had an industry partner, Cisco, and was set up as part of students’ learning in their corresponding universities. Five student-based Global virtual teams (GVTs) were formed. We draw on the experiences of these GVTs to gain better understanding of students’ experiences in dispersed collaboration giving particular focus on the leadership practices adopted in student-based GVTs. Our analysis of the GVT members’ experiences and reflections show that the way leadership was enacted had a role to play in the collaboration within the GVT. Overall, students appreciated being given the opportunity to be part of a globally dispersed project and were able to identify lessons learned and skills that they gained from the experience. Further, students were able to get practical experience in being part of virtual teams and to implement some of the ideas and approaches that they have learned from theory and in class discussions. For example, personal qualities that are central to success in virtual teams, i.e. communication skills, intercultural skills, interpersonal skills, methodological and technical skills, team working skills and leadership skills.

AB - In this paper we present a virtual collaborative student project across two universities in the UK and Norway. The students involved were all Master students in Digital Innovation & Analytics and Digital Collaboration retrospectively. The project also had an industry partner, Cisco, and was set up as part of students’ learning in their corresponding universities. Five student-based Global virtual teams (GVTs) were formed. We draw on the experiences of these GVTs to gain better understanding of students’ experiences in dispersed collaboration giving particular focus on the leadership practices adopted in student-based GVTs. Our analysis of the GVT members’ experiences and reflections show that the way leadership was enacted had a role to play in the collaboration within the GVT. Overall, students appreciated being given the opportunity to be part of a globally dispersed project and were able to identify lessons learned and skills that they gained from the experience. Further, students were able to get practical experience in being part of virtual teams and to implement some of the ideas and approaches that they have learned from theory and in class discussions. For example, personal qualities that are central to success in virtual teams, i.e. communication skills, intercultural skills, interpersonal skills, methodological and technical skills, team working skills and leadership skills.

KW - Collaboration

KW - Dispersed projects

KW - Global virtual teams

KW - Leadership

KW - Pedagogy

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-29374-1_64

DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-29374-1_64

M3 - Conference contribution/Paper

AN - SCOPUS:85072894432

SN - 9783030293734

T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

SP - 785

EP - 796

BT - Digital Transformation for a Sustainable Society in the 21st Century - 18th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2019, Proceedings

A2 - Pappas, Ilias O.

A2 - Pappas, Ilias O.

A2 - Krogstie, John

A2 - Jaccheri, Letizia

A2 - Mikalef, Patrick

A2 - Dwivedi, Yogesh K.

A2 - Mäntymäki, Matti

PB - Springer-Verlag

Y2 - 18 September 2019 through 20 September 2019

ER -