[[alternative]]A Study on Creativity of Virtual Teams

[[abstract]]The Purpose of this study was to discuss processes and results of virtual teams creativity in teacher’s college technology education. An experiment was conducted with the Solomon four-group design. The results yielded by One-way ANOVA and ANCOVA revealed that: (1) there were no significant differences in personal creativity, designing creativity, and product creativity within with-pretest-groups and without-pretest-groups; (2) there was no significant difference in personal creativity within virtual teams and conventional teams. Nevertheless, there were statistically significant differences both in designing creativity and product creativity. In addition, as a result of inductive analysis qualitatively, findings revealed that those main developmental stages which virtual teams adopted to create innovative products were initiation, appointment, dispersed discussion, formal discussion, concentrated discussion, and ending. Finally, based on the findings of this study, several recommendations for managing virtual teams, teaching technology education, and future studies were proposed.