IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Jun 2001

Exploratory research on the role of national and professional cultures in a distributed learning project

D.R. Vogel ; M. Van Genuchten ; D. Lou ; S. Verveen Robert Bosch (Germany) ; M. Van Eekout Eindhoven University of Technology ; A. Adams

Abstract

The impact of differing national and professional cultural backgrounds is a salient issue that interacts with technological support of distributed teams. As we prepare for the world of the future it becomes imperative that we give students the experience of working in multicultural distributed teams. In order to gain experience in this area, a project between ten teams of students from the City University of Hong Kong and the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands was initiated. A variety of group support technologies, primarily Group Systems, were used to service the teams as they learned to work together. This paper documents experiences from the Hong Kong-Netherlands project. Eight out of ten student teams successfully concluded a seven-week exercise resulting in an integrated report related to software engineering. Data collected on the process are reported and discussed. Those student teams who succeeded were found to be particularly attuned and accommodating to aspects of national and professional culture.

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IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
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2001-06-01
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10.1109/47.925514
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