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Collaboration is common in the workplace. Many businesses and work teams face ill-defined challenges that require creative and innovative solutions. These challenges often call for groups of people with a range of expertise to share and create new knowledge while working together toward a solution. However, collaboration does not come naturally, and educators are being challenged to prepare students with the skills to collaborate and provide opportunities that highlight the value of collaboration as a tool that will help them think in new ways and become creative, effective problem-solvers.

In the book Strategies for Energizing Large Classes: From Small Groups to Learning Communities, more than 100 instructors using small group activities or working to create student communities in large courses were interviewed on their rationale for using collaborative work in the classroom (MacGregor, Cooper, Smith, Robinson, 2000). Their reasons included:

  • Promoting cognitive elaboration
  • Enhancing critical thinking
  • Providing feedback
  • Promoting social and emotional development
  • Appreciating diversity
  • Reducing student attrition.

In 2009, the National Survey of Student Engagement identified active and collaborative learning as one of the top five benchmarks for effective educational practice. The report states: "Students learn more when intensely involved in their education and are asked to think about and apply what they learn in different settings. Collaborating with others in solving problems or mastering difficult material prepares students to deal with the messy, unscripted problems they encounter daily, both during and after college."

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1Group Work1046122023-12-273149
2Developing students’ disciplinary thinking1222452023-12-271324
3Using Zoom Breakout Rooms1074032023-12-273236
4Stages of Group Development1141922023-12-2617142
5Group Investigations1041442023-12-221961
6Constructive and Destructive Group Behaviors1141812023-12-2119163
7Team Expectations Agreements1141962023-12-212069
8Examples of Collaborative Group Work Assignments1141882023-12-211732
9Group Effort Analysis Rubric1142012023-12-212146
10Addressing Disruptive Team Behavior1143522023-12-212219
11Peer Review Rubric1141992023-12-2112311
12Group Work: Design and Planning1046222023-12-212372
13Group Roles1196152023-12-182368
14Group Project Planning Worksheet1171082023-12-182144
15Group Work Rubric1141972023-12-012701
16Group Work: Methods of Good Practice1141862023-12-011996
17Online Group Work: Barriers and Challenges1046242023-12-014526
18Assessing Group Work1045862023-12-013337
19Developing Students' Group Work Skills1132552023-12-011735
20Group Curation Activity in Canvas1062732023-12-012249
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