student collaboration

How to Make Group Work Not Suck: Scaffolding the Collaborative Process through Agency and Self-Regulation

Paul Hanstedt October 10, 2022

Employers love collaborators. Communities needs collaborators. Democracy requires collaboration.

Students hate collaboration.

And faculty feel . . . well . . . meh?

We know that collaboration is powerful. We know that it both provides students with skills they need and deepens their learning by exposing them to viewpoints different from their own. But

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Rebranding Participation

Maryellen Weimer May 2, 2022

How much has our thinking about participation changed? Start with your students: Do they equate participation with anything other than raising their hands to answer a question or being called on for a comment? Recent years have seen calls to broaden definitions of participation, but

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Study Buddies: Learning with a Partner

Maryellen Weimer April 4, 2022

Last week I happened onto something I’d written years ago about study buddies—two students who agree to study together in a course. I was describing a community college first-year seminar program that partnered students in the seminar and a general education course linked to it.

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Fostering Collaboration on Group Projects

Maryellen Weimer October 11, 2021

How do we get students to collaborate on group projects? Too often their involvement feels forced, their engagement superficial, and their interest minimal. Students do not learn content or develop collaborative skills unless they connect with the task and one another.

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Collaboration or Cheating: What Are the Distinctions?

Maryellen Weimer January 11, 2017

The line between collaboration and cheating is fuzzy. It’s still clear at the edges, but messy in the middle. When students are working in groups, searching for a solution to a problem, looking through possible answers for the best one, or sorting out material to

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Expand Classroom Walls through International Course Collaborations

Patrice Torcivia Prusko and Lorette Pellettiere Calix December 1, 2016

With globalization impacting almost every field, internationalization of the curriculum has become a goal shared by many colleges and universities. Many institutions look to study abroad programs to increase students’ awareness of and sensitivity to international issues and their understanding of different cultures and points

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A Lone Wolf’s Approach to Group Work

Maryellen Weimer March 12, 2014

“I’d really rather work alone. . .”

Most of us have heard that from a student (or several students) when we assign a group project, particularly one that’s worth a decent amount of the course grade. It doesn’t matter that the project is large, complex,

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Group Test-Taking Options to Consider

Maryellen Weimer January 15, 2014

I’ve been doing some reading on group test-taking (often called cooperative or collaborative testing in the literature). I am stunned by the number of studies and the many ways the strategy has been used. I’m not going to summarize the research in this

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