A cyber-icebreaker for an effective virtual group?

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2001
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Clear, Tony
Daniels, M.
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ACM
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This paper reports selected results from the most recent of a series of international collaborative trials between students at Auckland University of Technology and Uppsala University. The trials require students to work together in virtual groups, comprising students from each institution, to perform a common task. The topic of this paper is how to form and sustain more effective virtual groups. In this trial a cyber-icebreaker task has been introduced and its contribution to group effectiveness is explored. Some conclusions are drawn pinpointing the strengths and weaknesses of this trial design, and some insights into effective design of electronic collaborative learning groups are gained.

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In Proceeding ITiCSE '01 Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, pp. 121-124.
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