[Year 12 IPM] U3O2 Virtual Teams

[margaret.lawson at konstantkaos.net]

Joyce

My 2cents worth ...

I think that you need to ask yourself whether email helps or hinders
knowledge sharing and collaboration. One of the biggest problem that
knowledge management have is people hording organisational knowledge in
their personal drives and email boxes. Email is certainly not the best way
to handle knowledge.

The task asks students to critically analyse the tools available for doing
these tasks. So students need to have an understanding of the issues
surrounding knowledge management and collaboration online and the software
environemnts that help or hider these activities.

When I get some more energy I will write up my ideas .... home is beconing!

Margaret

> Dear All
>
> I am reading with interest everyone's comments on U302 -
> collaborative problem solving within virtual teams and am wondering
> if I may be over-simplifying this outcome task
>
> Going by the detailed example in the study design p. 69-70 we are
> given the scenario of university located on one
> "large campus", whereby management has recently formed as one of
> their key objectives to "strengthen current strategic collaborations
> and forge new alliances that will create new knowledge ..."
>
> The task is then:
>
> "design and create a prototype website for Sherwood University that
> will enable various virtual teams ... to realise their goals and to
> enhance decision making, knowledge sharing and collaborative problem
> solving"
>
> Couldn't simply having an email link solve this problem - yes you
> would use wikis, blogs, forums, webcasts, and every other "sexy"
> tool
> - however I can communicate virtually via email to people with the
> same interest (teams)
>
> Really, isn't that what I am doing right now - sending an email to a
> group of people with a common interest and goal and sharing
> information and receiving information in a collaborative environment
>
>
> Just my thoughts
>
> Cheers
> Joyce Tabone
> Aitken College
>
>
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