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    Strategies and Guidelines for Building Effective Distributed Learning Teams in Higher Education
    (2010) Serçe,F.C.; Nur Alpaslan,F.; Swigger,K.; Brazile,R.; Dafoulas,G.; Lopez,V.
    The paper describes the strategies and guidelines for building effective global student teams based on the experiences obtained from six global software development projects involving 438 students from the universities in the US, Panama, UK, and Turkey. According to the findings obtained from these projects, the factors affecting online collaboration and the problems faced during management of projects are given in the paper. It is hoped that these findings will help to instructors to design and manage globally distributed student teams. The paper also provides guidelines for students to become a good team player. ©2010 IEEE.
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    When Do Distributed Student Teams Work?
    (2012) Swigger,K.; Dafoulas,G.; Serce,F.C.; Alpaslan,F.N.; Lopez,V.
    The authors analyzed 2500 communication activities of student teams engaged in global software development projects during an 18 month period to determine the temporal behavior of students engaged in distributed group activities. The data revealed a number of daily, weekly, and project regularities, which provide insights into how distributed teams use their time. The results from this study show that students often work outside of the normal workday. Students' work habits are sometimes determined by where they live and what tasks they are performing. Moreover, students tend to work on group projects in cycles, which follow a start-middle-end pattern. Knowledge obtained from this study should provide insight into current empirical research on computer-supported collaborative learning by defining the different time variables that can be used to compare temporal patterns of online teams. © 2012 IEEE.