Virtual Teams Across National Borders

3 Virtual Intelligence Dealing with Distance Conceptual Review and Synthesis

Dmitrij Slepniov

DOI: 10.4324/9781003398745-3

Introduction

Contemporary environment worldwide is characterised by globally spread networked relationships. With the rise of social media in the early 2000s, many individual social connections migrated online taking new virtual forms. The concept of distance learning, which came into practice in the late 1900s, recently gained increased prominence due to the crisis caused by COVID-19. In the past three years, both sprawling edtech start-ups and traditional educational institutions have ventured into remote classrooms and virtual worlds.

The world of business has been exposed to analogous inclinations. The emergence of ...