Work organization skills associated with the type of electronic tool  (discussion board- groups calendar) in a learning environment based on  the resulting virtual team strategy when building the strategic plan skills  for educational technology specialists

Khaled Gomaa Khaled, Renda; Mohammed Alshaer, Hanan; Ali El Emam, Anhar

doi:10.21608/jsre.2020.71960

Work organization skills associated with the type of electronic tool (discussion board- groups calendar) in a learning environment based on the resulting virtual team strategy when building the strategic plan skills for educational technology specialists

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Professor of Instructional Technology- Faculty of women, Ain Shams University - Cairo - Egypt

² Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology- Faculty of women, Ain Shams University - Cairo - Egypt

10.21608/jsre.2020.71960

Abstract

The present research aimed to reach a list of work organization skills associated with the type of electronic tool in a learning environment based on the resulting virtual team strategy during the interaction to build the school's strategic plan skills for the educational technology specialists, where the research sample consisted of (60) students from the fourth year students, during the academic year 2018/2019 ad.
The results of current research showed the following: reaching to five main skills to organize the work inside the team, namely, the team organizational skills- the skills of defining roles and responsibilities- the social interaction skills- the performance skills- the decision making skills. Also, the excellence of the type of electronic tool (the discussion board) over the type of electronic tool (the groups calendar) in increasing the number of work organization skills represented in the team organizational skills, the skills of defining roles and responsibilities and the performance skills whereas in case of decision making skills, the type of electronic tool (the groups calendar) exceeded over the type of electronic tool (the discussion board).

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