Businesses sometimes need workers to collaborate in order to move toward specific company objectives. The result is the formation of team and group projects. When a company forms these teams, members ...
During your time at CU Boulder, you will most likely work in groups for class projects. Working on group projects allows you to build teamwork skills, learn how to distribute workloads and ...
Team goals are just one piece of a complex puzzle that ultimately forms a complete picture for a group project. A group project, by some accounts, could be a long-term project that an entire ...
Group work is a time-tested strategy in many classrooms, but educators are starting to rethink how to evaluate these projects not just on the content students learn, but the skills they hone to work ...
Everyone knows how annoying group projects can be, especially you’re stuck working with someone who isn’t doing their fair share of work. But even if all team members are committed to working hard and ...
In May, when one of my daughters returned home from her sophomore year, I asked her to sum up how she felt about college life at the halfway point. Socially, after months of disruption caused by the ...
I’m hard pressed to think of someone else in higher ed who is more influential in starting conversations about teaching and learning than James Lang (Cheating Lessons and Small Teaching), and writing ...
Group work has long been a source of friction between students and instructors. At their worst, team projects force high-achieving students to compensate for those less willing to put in effort. At ...
It's all too common for students to report bad experiences with group projects, as a boom of internet memes on the topic confirm. This article is part of the collection: The EdSurge Podcast. If you’ve ...
Group work can be as polarizing as candy corn: there are those who love it and those who despise it. Those who love group work see it as a perfect opportunity to be lazy and exploit the other ...
It's February. My professor has realized winter break is long gone and has begun to assign actual work. Sigh. I'm swamped with papers, problem sets, labs and the all too familiar group projects. But I ...