A PEDAGOGICAL TOOL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROJECT TEAM COLLABORATION SKILLS

2014 Issues in Information Systems  
Group collaboration skills are critical to team and project success. Despite the high price of project failure information systems programs have struggled to develop replicable, validated, quantitative methods and tools to promote the development of group collaboration and knowledge building, when teaching project management. This research presents a pedagogical tool designed to address this need. The tool is based on scenarios, and utilizes the computer-supported collaborative learning tool of
more » ... asynchronous discussion boards; a common tool for geographically dispersed project teams. Based on three years of research in five classes, the results of this study demonstrate statistically significant growth of group collaboration skills by student teams through five problem scenarios. The applicability of this tool, including addressing changing approaches when teaching project management, is discussed.
doi:10.48009/1_iis_2014_39-51 fatcat:ctk6tsojbfdk3dbulycuoz2t6e