TY - JOUR A1 - Logemann, Minna A1 - Aritz, Jolanta A1 - Cardon, Peter A1 - Swartz, Stephanie A1 - Elhaddaoui, Terri A1 - Getchell, Kristen A1 - Fleischmann, Carolin A1 - Helens-Hart, Rose A1 - Li, Xiaoli A1 - Palmer-Silveira, Juan Carlos A1 - Ruiz-Garrido, Miguel A1 - Springer, Scott A1 - Stapp, James T1 - Standing strong amid a pandemic: How a global online team project stands up to the public health crisis JF - British Journal of Educational Technology N2 - 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. KW - collaborative learning KW - communication KW - digital competences KW - distance learning KW - experiential learning KW - higher education KW - team working KW - virtual world Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13189 VL - 53 IS - 3 SP - 577 EP - 592 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cardon, Peter A1 - Aritz, Jolanta A1 - Fleischmann, Carolin A1 - Elhaddaoui, Terri A1 - Getchell, Kristen A1 - Helens-Hart, Rose A1 - Iivonen, Kirsti A1 - Insignares, Frank A1 - Li, Xiaoli A1 - Logemann, Minna A1 - Palmer-Silveira, Juan Carlos A1 - Ruiz-Garrido, Miguel A1 - Shrivastava, Archana A1 - Springer, Scott A1 - Stapp, James A1 - Swartz, Stephanie A1 - Warren, Naomi A1 - Woolstenhulme, Karen A1 - Zemaitis, Eigirdas T1 - What Happens to Global Virtual Teams When a Pandemic Hits? Maintaining Normalcy and Stability with Disruption All Around JF - The Western ABC Bulletin N2 - 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. KW - Virtual Business Professional (VBP) program Y1 - 2020 VL - Spring 2020 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Carradini, Stephen A1 - Getchell, Kristen A1 - Cardon, Peter A1 - Fleischmann, Carolin A1 - Aritz, Jolanta A1 - Stapp, James T1 - Evidence-based recommendations for recorded meetings policies JF - Business Horizons N2 - Virtual meeting recordings have become a common part of virtual and hybrid workplace environments. Meeting recordings offer potential benefits (speedy transcript production, expedited information sharing, searchable information, inclusion of visual and tonal expressions) and drawbacks (difficulty discussing sensitive issues, employee privacy, limited off-the-record capabilities, and employee concerns over sharing recordings). Given this variance, policies for virtual meetings are a necessity. Managers can successfully implement a policy by co-creating policy preferences with employees in open-ended and nonjudgmental conversations that openly discuss potential benefits, drawbacks, and employee concerns. Topics such as when to record, when not to record, how to gain consent, and who will have administrative and sharing rights should be covered. Accessibility concerns, use or rejection of software features, for how long and where meeting recordings should be stored, and emerging issues such as use of virtual reality meetings and AI tools are areas of less urgency that may be part of the conversations. Managers should deliver policy preferences to a group of representatives from Human Resources, Information Technology, and the executive team to compose the policy, request a legal review, then introduce and implement it in the organization. KW - Policy KW - Psychological safety KW - Recorded meetings KW - Virtual meetings Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2023.08.003 ER -