Assessing group work involves evaluating a group's achievement of learning outcomes through collaborative assignments or projects (product), that group's ability to work together (process), and/or the ...

In a recent survey of more than 3,000 undergraduates taking courses online during the COVID-19 pandemic, Vikki Katz, associate professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How can teachers maximize student learning gained by group work? Group work can be an engaging and academically rewarding instructional strategy—when done well. Of ...

In 2016, I was teaching third grade. One of our initiatives was to include STEM activities in our science lessons. I began with a simple project designing balloon-powered cars, but what started as a ...

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 ...

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Teamwork can be challenging but also fun and rewarding. Source: Athleya/Flickr Learning to work with others is not easy. Cooperation, collaboration, negotiation, compromise, and teamwork are all ...

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 ...