Group work is a time-tested strategy in many classrooms, but educators are starting to rethink how to evaluate these projects not just on the content students learn, but the skills they hone to work ...

Designating a meaningful role for each group member helps students reach their potential both individually and collectively.

During your time at CU Boulder, you will most likely work in groups for class projects. Working on group projects allows you to build teamwork skills, learn how to distribute workloads and ...

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 ...

Whether you're in school or at work, a group project can be a real double-edged sword. Working on your own can be preferable if you are prone to distraction or don't want to be subject to anyone ...

Surveys of employers routinely point to the value of preparing college graduates to be effective team players. As educators, we’ve responded with a now-familiar solution: the group project. But too ...

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 ...

Group projects can be a challenge for many students, especially those new to college. They might prefer working alone, worry about others not pulling their weight, or feel group work slows progress.

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 ...

In the working world, most successful ventures are group projects. No car is manufactured by a single person, no airplane is built and flown by one person, and no surgery is performed by a single ...

Group work can be as polarizing as candy corn: there are those who love it and those who despise it. Those who love group work see it as a perfect opportunity to be lazy and exploit the other ...