One school/two campuses: A socio-technical approach for building the distributed classroom

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Abstract

INSEAD, an international business school with campuses in France and Singapore, discovered first-hand the opportunities and challenges that distance and technology can bring for teams and collaboration among knowledge workers. Using off-the-shelf technologies, I used this situation to experiment with a distributed classroom experience in an MBA course. The course was project-based and students had to work on a consulting project in virtual teams distributed in Asia and Europe. This chapter documents the design and implementation of the course and provides lessons for teaching successful transnational classrooms. Observations conducted during this course suggest that the "class," which is enacted with the feeling of belonging to the same group, is a socio-technical construction. Participants evolved their practices and adapted the technology during the course in order to facilitate communication and smooth out interactions across the sites.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationTeaching and Learning with Virtual Teams
PublisherIGI Global
Pages194-220
Number of pages27
ISBN (Print)9781591407089
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Social Sciences

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