Friday, 29 June 2018

teaching - How to make group work work?


Occasionally I have some material to cover that is best presented in the form of take-home group projects.


Some student groups manage to find a way to coordinate their work well and to complete the projects successfully, with every team member benefiting from the collaboration. Other groups do not do so well:



  • Some groups evenly divide the work, but still work in isolation, losing the benefits of working with peers.

  • Some groups push the work to one or two students, while the remaining students merely contribute their name.



I wonder if there are strategies or tools instructors use that can encourage more groups to operate successfully while they are working outside of class?




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