Barriers and Challenges to Group Work

Collaborative group work in an online environment can be an effective way of engaging students in higher-level learning. There are, however, some significant barriers that may make this kind of work difficult. Some of these are:

• Lack of access to high-bandwidth connections or limited data plans,
• Lack of a private space to work in an uninterruptible way,
• Being located in a different time zone (making synchronous activities difficult),
• Challenges in the way students use learning and
• Increases in the amount of time it may take students to complete activities.

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