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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Improving Virtual Team Collaboration Outcomes through Collaboration Process Structuring
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Dittman, Dawn R.; Hawkes, Mark; Deokar, Amit V.; Sarnikar, Surendra – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2010
The ability to collaborate in a virtual team is a necessary skill set for today's knowledge workers and students to be effective in their work. Past research indicates that knowledge workers and students need to establish a formal process to perform work, develop clear goals and objectives, and facilitate better communication among team members.…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Job Skills, Cooperation, Employees
Reflective Outcomes of Convergent and Divergent Group Tasking in the Online Learning Environment
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Hawkes, Mark – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2007
Using collaborative critical reflection as an index, this study examines the asynchronous and face-to-face discourse of 28 suburban Chicago elementary teachers developing problem based learning (PBL) curriculum. Statistical analysis of the corpus produced by the 2 mediums shows that the asynchronous online network emerges as the medium of choice…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Curriculum Design, Online Courses, Problem Based Learning
An Analysis of Team vs. Faculty-Based Online Course Development: Implications for Instructional Design.
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Hawkes, Mark; Coldeway, Dan O. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2002
Discussion of instructional design for distance education compares team-based and faculty-driven design approaches based on three online graduate degree programs in two disciplinary areas. Discusses design considerations for online graduate distance education, including needs analysis, content and task analysis, and media selection and design; and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Distance Education, Faculty Workload