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 ...

Everyone has a group project horror story. Maybe you had a classmate who got away with doing none of the work. Or maybe a group member doubled down on doing something incorrectly. For the really ...

Group work refers to learning experiences in which students work together on the same task. Group work can help build a positive and engaging learning community through peer learning and teaching.

Team and group collaboration is an increasingly important component to many workplaces, including brainstorming ideas, co-writing reports, and working together to solve complex problems. In this ...

(This is the third post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) In Part One, Valentina Gonzalez, Olivia Montero Petraglia, Jenny Vo, and Jennifer Mitchell provided their ...

A new study published by University of Minnesota researchers found that working in groups can help students better understand classroom material. The study, published last month, found that within ...

Why struggle through setting and assessing group tasks when this teaching approach can present considerable challenges around communication and conflict? These insights offer ways to design tasks that ...

In his 1942 book How To Think Up, advertising executive Alex Osborn presented his idea for a technique he called “brainstorming,” a process in which participants share ideas free of criticism and have ...

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