Better Student Project Teams: Online Modules for Teaching Teamwork

Martha Harty is a mediator, trainer and learning scientist, a professor at Carnegie Mellon, and co-founder of Martris, a tech startup. She creates training modules for student teams covering collaboration, diversity and conflict skills, and studies their effectiveness. Recent work includes CollaborativeU–basic diversity and conflict communication–and ConflictU–interest-based negotiation (available on CMU’s Open Learning Initiative). Her startup’s first product, Conflict Coach, is a mobile app that helps users navigate personal and professional conflicts and learn conflict management skills.