BongHwan Kim, a Korean-American who is executive director of the MultiCultural Collaborative, formed after the 1992 unrest, said Asian-Americans, who are 10percentt of the population of 3.3 million, continued to have problems with police brutality.
Moreover, in such a multicultural collaborative environment, English is often used as the communication language and this may cause communication difficulties within teams (Pincas, 2001; Staples & Zhao, 2006).
While tipping you off about local talent (Invisible Orchestra, Crosa Rosa, Rob Green, Field Studies), Notts' creatives extol a scene that, like this small city itself, is tight-knit, collaborative, multicultural.
Therefore, this paper intends to contribute to our knowledge of collaborative multicultural teamwork in virtual environments.
The findings of this literature review are especially important for those people who are planning to organize activities, which involve collaborative multicultural virtual teams.
To find out the main factors that impact the success of collaborative multicultural teamwork in virtual environments; an extensive literature search is conducted with keywords such as multiculture, virtual teams, collaboration, cross-cultural, ICT, computer mediated communication.
This has indeed become evident in the findings of this study, which highlights that amidst the challenges wonderful opportunities are prevalent in diverse higher education sectors as students engage in collaborative learning in a multicultural, multiethnic, multiracial and multilingual contexts.
In this literature review, the issues of how collaborative work comes into being and develops in multicultural virtual teams, the ways to facilitate them and what makes the work in such a team satisfactory and successful are explored.
In his collaborative research with Keith Banting he argued that policies of multicultural recognition and social redistribution are not necessarily in conflict with each other (Banting & Kymlicka, 2006).
Using a qualitative approach, this study aims to explore in more depth the perceptions of students and teachers regarding multicultural learning contexts, diverse group dynamics and the underlying effects of diversity on collaborative heterogeneous PBL groups.
Within this context of multiple cultures, the use of advanced ICT for collaborative work offers the potential for effective performance and the promotion of multicultural understanding among citizens of different nations (Cagiltay et al. 2001).
