Journal article
Attitudes of distance education students towards compulsory virtual teamwork in an undergraduate business course
e-Journal of Business Education & Scholarship of Teaching, Vol.1(1), pp.14-23
2007
Abstract
Today's global business environment, requires business graduates to have the skills to work as members of virtual teams. Online interaction and team-based online assessment in business education courses allows students with to experience virtual teamwork. This paper presents the findings of an electronic survey of distance education students' perceptions concerning a virtual team assessment item (VTAI) using asynchronous discussion. The VTAI was set for an undergraduate marketing course at the University of Southern Queensland. The findings revealed that while the students did not necessarily enjoy the VTAI and found the assessment task to be both frustrating and time-consuming, they agreed that the task was beneficial to their learning and should be included in future course offerings.
Details
- Title
- Attitudes of distance education students towards compulsory virtual teamwork in an undergraduate business course
- Authors
- Dawn Birch (Author) - University of Southern QueenslandJacquelin McDonald (Author) - University of Southern Queensland
- Publication details
- e-Journal of Business Education & Scholarship of Teaching, Vol.1(1), pp.14-23
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Date published
- 2007
- ISSN
- 1835-9132
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2007 e-JBEST
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; USC Business School - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99448990502621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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