# COINs change leaders - Lessons Learned from a Distributed Course

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.1158 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1308.1158/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 6 Aug 2013.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper we analyze the communication network of 50 students from five universities in three countries participating in a joint course on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs). Students formed ten teams. Interaction variables calculated from the e-mail archive of individual team members predict the level of creativity of the team. Oscillating leadership, where members switch between central and peripheral roles is the best predictor of creativity, it is complemented by the variance in the amount of sending or receiving information, and by answering quickly, and positive language. We verify our automatically generated creativity metrics with interviews.