@article{LogemannAritzCardonetal.2022, author = {Logemann, Minna and Aritz, Jolanta and Cardon, Peter and Swartz, Stephanie and Elhaddaoui, Terri and Getchell, Kristen and Fleischmann, Carolin and Helens-Hart, Rose and Li, Xiaoli and Palmer-Silveira, Juan Carlos and Ruiz-Garrido, Miguel and Springer, Scott and Stapp, James}, title = {Standing strong amid a pandemic: How a global online team project stands up to the public health crisis}, series = {British Journal of Educational Technology}, volume = {53}, journal = {British Journal of Educational Technology}, number = {3}, doi = {10.1111/bjet.13189}, pages = {577 -- 592}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The annual instructional virtual team Project X brings together professors and students from across the globe to engage in client projects. The 2020 project was challenged by the global disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper draws on a quantitative dataset from a post-project survey among 500 participating students and a qualitative narrative inquiry of personal experiences of the faculty members. The findings reveal how innovative use of a variety of collaboration and communication technologies helped students and their professors in building emotional connection and compassion to support each other in the midst of the crisis, and to accomplish the project despite connectivity disruptions. The results suggest that the role of an instructor changed to a coach and mentor, and technology was used to create a greater sense of inclusion and co-presence in student-faculty interactions. Ultimately, the paper highlights the role of technology to help the participants navigate sudden crisis affecting a global online instructional team project. The adaptive instructional teaching strategies and technologies depicted in this study offer transformative potential for future developments in higher education.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{CardonFleischmannAritzetal.2022, author = {Cardon, Peter and Fleischmann, Carolin and Aritz, Jolanta and Ma, Haibing and Springer, Ann and Springer, Scott}, title = {The Influence of Psychological Safety and Personality on Technology Acceptance of Team-Based Technology in Global Virtual Teams}, series = {Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Collaboration platforms for teams, such as Slack, are increasingly used in virtual teams. Conventional wisdom suggests attitudes about adopting these types of platforms is primarily driven by their affordances. Our project emerged from the premise that psychological safety and personality traits can also significantly influence attitudes related to technology adoption. This research of roughly 300 global virtual teams showed that psychological safety influences views of collaboration platforms in terms of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, and hedonic motivation. In addition, this research showed that personality traits influence views of collaboration platforms. These findings about psychological safety and personality traits suggest a team-development approach is an integral component of the technology adoption process. Recommendations for future research are provided.}, language = {en} } @article{CardonAritzFleischmannetal.2020, author = {Cardon, Peter and Aritz, Jolanta and Fleischmann, Carolin and Elhaddaoui, Terri and Getchell, Kristen and Helens-Hart, Rose and Iivonen, Kirsti and Insignares, Frank and Li, Xiaoli and Logemann, Minna and Palmer-Silveira, Juan Carlos and Ruiz-Garrido, Miguel and Shrivastava, Archana and Springer, Scott and Stapp, James and Swartz, Stephanie and Warren, Naomi and Woolstenhulme, Karen and Zemaitis, Eigirdas}, title = {What Happens to Global Virtual Teams When a Pandemic Hits? Maintaining Normalcy and Stability with Disruption All Around}, series = {The Western ABC Bulletin}, volume = {Spring 2020}, journal = {The Western ABC Bulletin}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Each year, the Virtual Business Professional (VBP) program brings together professors and students from across the globe to engage in client projects. The VBP program of 2020 occurred from the beginning of March through the middle of April. In this article, we share how the COVID-19 pandemic affected VBP participants and their teams. We present post-project survey results (completed by 440 of 530 participants for an 83 percent response rate), professor comments, and student comments to demonstrate how VBP participants overcame many of the pandemic disruptions to work effectively in virtual teams, develop compassion and empathy for one another, and foster more global mindsets.}, language = {en} }