Description

This course on COINs (Collaborative Innovation Networks), asks students from geographically distributed locations who have never met face to face to form virtual interdisciplinary teams collaborating on a common task, the communication analysis of online communities. As part of their task they correlate individual and team performance of the community they are analyzing with individual and team social network structure. While collaborating over long distance, students also keep track of their own communication activities, thus optimizing their own communication behavior.

Learning Objectives

students will acquire virtual collaboration and communication skills crucial for the 21st century global workforce. They will also improve their own communication behavior