My communal identity

I have a lot of working experience of multicultural virtual teamwork and I see that will be a way of working at the future too. When working virtually in the global enterprise with people from different culture, people who you haven´t ever met, there were assumptions made as studies say. According to studies, since there is no time to build necessary trust for team members, you just start working with the assumption of trustworthiness. And in the majority of the cases it really works. If there is time, I´d like to have some early trainings for the team to build even more effective one. It´s though quite usual thinking that in order to save time (even that is not always the case) new project teams just start to work together.

Recently I have used online communites and social media a lot for learning. No matter what the subject is, there is a lot of information existing online. The more recent information I want to know, more likely it´s to be found online. I´m not sure if there is a need to belong so many expert communites any more, just be online and you are able to find information and discuss whatever interests you.

I find the role and significance of peers in the development of a multicultural online teacher identity, as in any other topic too, very important. I see that if you want to learn and develop in any matter, it´s much faster and more effective way to learn from and with others than doing that yourself. So also the way of learning has changed compared to what I have originally learned at school. I have experienced the learning from the peers is a must in the development at work since there is no time to do it alone. Peers have also helped a lot in any informal learning I have done. There too I have experienced that together I have learned much more in a shorter period of time. Based on my personal experience, I hope the peers will be used more in learning at schools too. It´s much faster and nicer to walk with the pair of shoes than just one shoe. There are of course exceptions.