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Teamwork Through Team Building: Face-to-Face to Online

2008; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 71; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/1080569908325862

1552-4191

Julie Staggers, Susan A. Vega García, Ed Nagelhout,

Management and Marketing Education

This article describes the ways the authors incorporated team-building activities into our online business writing courses by interrogating the ways that kinesthetic learning translates into the electronic realm. The authors review foundational theories of team building, including Cog's Ladder and Tuckman's Stages, and offer sample exercises they have converted. The authors show how the medium affects the exercises, how the choices made as teachers affect the exercises, and how they adjusted to meet the needs of their students. The authors argue that teamwork most successfully occurs after team building, and too often this team building is lacking in online environments.