EFFECTIVE VIRTUAL TEAMWORK DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

The evolution of technological growth and the globalized nature of today’s world makes virtual teamwork as one of the building blocks of a successful organization. As a consequence, it rationale the importance of developing virtual teamwork in the higher education arena because it has been considered that future graduates are prepared through their higher education for their foreseeable professional life. Therefore, this paper presents a systematic review on developing virtual teamwork in the context of higher education in order to systematically synthesis and determine what is already know according to the state-of-the-knowledge and find out the gaps that need to focus in the academic domain. More specifically, this paper will present a state-of-the-art on the effective virtual teamwork development in the domain of education, higher education, or university-level education. The Web of Science database has been considered for carrying out this systematic review which is one of the most used and popular databases for conducting research on a particular field of interests. The findings of the reviewed literature show the necessity or importance of integrating virtual teamwork in higher education as well as discusses individual factor and leadership effects on the performance or effectiveness of virtual teamwork. However, there are not any studies that researched the development of effective virtual teamwork in higher education. The systematic literature review on this research subject, therefore, is the primary objective of this research work