The sense of personal control and the simplicity of initiating collaboration are appealing. Most of my students described Groove as an interesting tool. Whether it will evolve beyond being just an interesting tool will largely depend on how learning solution providers react to Groove and what Groove Networks can offer to them in return. Once again, many thanks to Nancy White of Full Circle Associates for directing our attention to this valuable resource. Originally, their group consisted of loosely coordinated research groups overseen by a steering committee composed of the project managers from the partner sites.
Teamwork requires team meetings .
Each subgroup was also required to hold weekly or biweekly conference calls. These new reporting requirements, though initially unwelcome, proved critical in keeping people on target. Usually people are unaware of them because the controls are informal. But this transparent social pressure breaks down when teams are distributed, he says, necessitating more formal measures. Document, document, document .