Group work

Educators, are your group-project assignments falling short of expectations? Elevate your students’ collaborative learning experience with seven transformative strategies, ensuring team projects succeed and students remain enthusiastic about group work.

Putting the emphasis on a deliberate, reflective approach that emphasises clear goals and active engagement is a better way to prepare students for teamwork in their future careers, write William Owen and Leah Chambers

Cooperative learning can be a powerful learning strategy, but only if it works well. These small changes can make group work more effective in your classroom.

Throwing students into groups without an accountability system rigs such work against them, writes Christina Katopodis, but we can transform it by thoughtfully structuring it in equitable ways.

This educator uses a tech strategy to teach collaboration.

If you’ve ever been a student, then you’ve probably done a group project at some point. And you most likely also have a horror story about a group ...

Group work has many benefits to students and student learning, but it also has its challenges. Most common problems can be avoided if you put in the effort and take the time to plan carefully. One of the early steps to take into consideration as you prepare is how to form groups. There are many decisions to make, and the ... Read More

Nurture your team to high performance with Tuckman’s Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning (Mourning) model.

Break up your lecture with one of these activities to help students prepare for group work.

Designing a strategy to group students reduces much of the stress in class students face when asked to “pair up” or “form a group.”

Group work as a pedagogy has a host of benefits. From a cognitive perspective, the interaction with and evaluation of others’ ideas can help confirm or refine (assimilate) what is understood, chang…

These ideas can be adapted for any subject area, along with suggestions for adding criticality and opportunities for student agency to each one.

How to use the group resume activity to help students prepare for group work.

Are you considering using a team project in your course?  Have you used them before but feel that there’s room for improvement?

Imagine two groups of students in your physics class or lab. In Group A, the students each take on a different task but invest an equal amount of time, energy, and effort in what they do. For examp...

I’ve been asked to talk a little more about how I help prepare teams for success in my online courses. Fortunately, I’m not the only one writing about this. A recent article in Inside Higher Ed by …

Rebecca Hogue talks about Demystifying Online Group Projects on episode 403 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Scroll down the page to access teaching resources: participation forms and role playing.

The Educationalist. By Alexandra Mihai

Students tend to despise group projects. But better design and instruction could change that.

Guest post by Kate Mitchell, University of Melbourne

Guiding students in effective collaboration is one of the best ways to mentor them in this crisis, Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis argue, offering advice for how to do so successfully.