This study examines how leadership characteristics in new product development teams affect the learning, knowledge application, and subsequently the performance of these teams. Using data from a study of 229 members from 52 high-tech new product projects, we empirically demonstrate that team learning has a strong positive effect on the innovativeness and speed to market of the new products. Mor...

Cooperative learning theory has shown that stable membership is a hallmark of effective work teams. According to relation strength and social network centrality, this paper proposes an approach to measure team stability reasons in consecutive cooperative learning. Taking consecutive course projects of software engineering in a university as examples, we examine the relation between team stabili...

Learning agents increase their team’s performance by learning to coordinate better with their teammates, and we are interested in forming teams that contain such learning agents. In particular, we consider finite training instances for learning agents to improve their coordination before the final team is formed. We formally define the learning agents team formation problem, and focus on learni...

Team-based learning is an active learning instructional strategy used in the traditional face-to-face classroom. Web-based computer-mediated communication (CMC) tools complement the face-toface classroom and enable active learning between face-to-face class times. This article presents the results from pilot assessments of computer-supported team-based learning. The authors utilized pedagogical...

This paper presents a computational model developed to study the role of different modes of social learning on the formation of team mental models (TMM). In this model, the TMM is formed over time as team members learn about each other. Members can learn about other team members from (a) their personal interactions with the task and other team members (b) observing other members perform tasks a...

BACKGROUND Team-based learning (TBL) is a structured type of cooperative learning that has growing application in medical education. This study compares levels of student learning and teaching satisfaction for a neurology course between conventional lecture and team-based learning. METHODS The study incorporated 70 students aged 19 to 22 years at the school of rehabilitation. One half of the ...