Guidelines For Setting Up Team Governance

Each team could communicate and discuss team governance to prepare for their online collaborative learning project. After the teams finish all of these tasks, the teams could submit one copy of these documents to the instructor as a record via Google docs. Changing or modifying the team documents is permissible if decided unanimously by all team members. Since this is an optional group activity, these documents will not be graded.

1. Team Goals

• Read the online collaborative learning projects (team project) assigned by the instructor
• Set up the team goals to meet the requirements of the collaborative learning project.
• Here are a few things that your team may want to cover.
  • How team members can support each other?
  • How can we achieve the tasks effectively and efficiently?
  • Does team need a leader?
  • How frequently the team should communicate?
• Post a copy of the team goals/objectives on your team area.

2. Team policy and procedure

• Setup the necessary policies and procedures that team members can follow to accomplish the collaborative project.
• Setup the deadlines for the first draft and the peer feedback. Post the decisions on the team governance documents.
• Identify leadership if necessary.

3. Communication methods

• Identify effective computer-mediated communication (CMC) technologies
• Exchange communication information
  • Exchange e-mail and alternative e-mail contacts
  • Exchange phone and post office mailing address if necessary.
• Discuss how team members should communicate? How frequently?