Teaming in Team Based MOOCs

[caroly...@gmail.com]

I am interested in the topic of team formation in team based MOOCs.  I am currently trying to scour the literature for studies related specifically to the process of forming teams -- not group composition, but the process through which people join, are oriented to, and begin participating in their teams.  I would be grateful for any insights that can be offered.

Thanks,

Carolyn

[Leah Nicolich-Henkin]

I just came across this website that's apparently designed solely to help MOOC students find and participate in subgroups to support their learning experience. Might be worth checking out. http://smoocer.com/

[Diyi Yang]

I know NovaEd has this kind of team based projects/collaborations.  Students there pick a team to join in, mainly based on their interest. Maybe that is a good place to understand how such teams form.

I'm also very interested in online teamwork and recently i am trying to figure out what kinds of roles a team member functions to collaborate with others to finish a task. Some interesting findings to share with you :  (1)  when i applied my model (which identifies roles in teamwork) to the NovaEd datasets, i can find the leader is one important role that contributes to teamwork quality. If a team has a very good leader, then it is more likely to perform well. (2) Well, i do see some evidence that a team has a leader and co-leader in the dataset, especially in this case -- at the very beginning, there is only one leader, and he/she guides the whole team. As time goes on, this "leader" gradually becomes less motivated and less active. Then a co-leader appears. There are some messages like "I am so happy to have you as a co-leader", "thanks for saving our team", etc. I think this might be something related to team formation that you want.

Hope this could help.

 

[Augusto Santos]

Hi Diyi Yang,

Where I can find more information about those NovaEd datasets?

I've tried to Google it but haven't found anything.

Thank you very much.

[Carolyn Rose]

Hi Augusto,

We got a small dataset from NovoEd for a specific purpose, but we're not allowed to share it beyond our group.  You would need to get permission from NovoEd.

Carolyn

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[tanmay....@gmail.com]

Hi Prof Carolyn,

-I read literature (sometime back) that links social network analysis and team formation as well as team performance. Also wrote a proposal about it! I'm not sure whether you've gone through this proposal!

(http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/abstractMetrics.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6814694&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D6814694)

-Also, here's a link to the dropbox folder containing all my readings for team formation/performance: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cj0lkw4xlvcjkl1/AACo7RM2GWXfSkz80zgv_wGPa?dl=0

Hope that would help! 

Regards

Tanmay Sinha

(CMU)