Share Paper: Virtual Team Collaboration in Pre-Service Teacher Education

1. Xiaojun Chen, St. John's University, United States

Abstract: The author of this presentation shares a case of four cross-cultural student teacher teams working in a project that required virtual collaboration in implementing a technology integration project. Twenty-three pre-service teachers from United States were assigned to four teams to research four different Web 2.0 applications. Each team worked with another international team that consists students from other countries. In total, forty-three students worked in this project. Each collaboration team created a wiki chapter for the Web 2.0 assigned to their team. This presentation will discuss the challenges of virtual team collaboration and pre-service teachers’ learning in this type of ...