Welcome to Group Work 101! This resource aims to provide faculty with strategies to organize group work in a way that promotes strong collaboration and full participation of all students in their team process and in the creation of their team’s product. You may wish to review the full resource, or jump into the parts that are most relevant to your learning now – this resource is designed to provide you with this flexibility.
Learning Objectives
By engaging with the materials in this resource, you will be able to:
- Define how group work connects to the learning objectives of your course/program
- Distinguish between product and process focus in group work
- Compare strategies for forming teams
- Incorporate explicit teaching on team/group processes into your courses
- Facilitate the process of effective team formation and collaborative work
- Support team formation in online environments
- Choose technology to support group work
- Facilitate team development in culturally diverse teams
- Use strategies to minimize the possibility of social loafing
- Explore strategies for evaluating team projects
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