Craig Blewett

Managing Global Virtual Teams across Classrooms, Students and Faculty.

Virtual teams are becoming commonplace in business today so our business school students should have experience in effectively working in virtual teams. Based on a month-long virtual team project conducted by the authors between classes in South Africa and the United States, this paper discusses the opportunities and challenges of using global virtual teams as part of a business school curriculum. The authors describe the use of a virtual team life cycle to assess the month long project to identify key elements to retain and to change for the next time the virtual project is implemented.

An investigation of UKZN students’ adoption and utilisation of personal cloud technologies

The personal cloud is a rapidly emerging technology with applications in both the personal and education domains. Despite the rapid emergence of the personal cloud, there exists limited research into the adoption and utilisation of personal cloud technologies, particularly by university students in a developing country. Using the questionnaire responses of 137 students at various university levels, and using the Personal Cloud Adoption Model (PCAM) as a theoretical lens, this article reports on a study that investigated the factors influencing the adoption of personal cloud technologies by students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban, South Africa. the authors argue that whilst the personal cloud is crucial in the future of higher education, there are certain institutional challenges that must be overcome before the benefits of the personal cloud in higher education are realised. the need for an appropriate paradigmatic change by universities, in order to effectively use these new technologies, is discussed.

From Traditional Pedagogy to Digital Pedagogy

However inherent in this thinking is the supposition that traditional approaches are inferior to newer approaches and that “cutting-edge strategies” will invoke different and innovative pedagogies. A key part of the problem relates to the perception of technology as a tool rather than a system or set of affordances.