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Cory Legassic – LEARNing Landscapes, 2024
This piece offers a conceptual framework for collective care as pedagogy in higher education, and a proposition of how to theorize its orientations within anticolonial and feminist work on affect in education. First, I spotlight work that helps to define collective care. Next, I call on the concept of affective individualism as a way to describe…
Descriptors: Caring, Higher Education, Decolonization, Feminism
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Singleton, Judith A.; Watson, Kaitlyn E.; Kenyon, Johanna J. – Innovative Higher Education, 2022
Group assessment is an important collaborative learning structure for development of graduate teamwork competencies. However, group assessments are often associated with poorer learning outcomes due to highly negative student experiences involving tension and conflict. In this study, an online tool incorporating four strategic 'GATES' ("Team…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Group Unity, Competence
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Brohinsky, Jais; Sonnert, Gerhard; Sadler, Philip – Science & Education, 2022
While dissent is recognized as a necessary component of scientific knowledge production, in school settings, it is a double-edged sword that can disrupt and undermine social cohesion just as it can promote thinking and creativity. This pilot study explores patterns of dissent in a science education context. It uses a mixed-methods approach to…
Descriptors: Science Education, College Students, Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning
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Sukhada Samudra; Cynney Walters; Destiny Williams-Dobosz; Aarati Shah; Peggy Brickman – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
The cognitive and performance benefits of group work in undergraduate courses depend on understanding how to structure groups to promote communication and comfort while also promoting diversity and reducing conflict. The current study utilized social network analysis combined with self-reported survey data from 555 students in 155 groups to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Team Training, Group Experience, Group Dynamics
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Rayne Bozeman; Robyn K. Mallett; Linas Mitchell; R. Scott Tindale – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Two-phase testing assesses individual performance (phase 1) and then allows collaborative learning within small groups (phase 2). While groups typically outperform individuals, less is known about the social decision schemes that influence member collaboration. In a classroom setting, we compared individual and group performance on a standard test…
Descriptors: Testing, Group Testing, Cooperative Learning, Learning Experience
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Kuznetsova, Maria; Gura, Dmitry; Vorona-Slivinskaya, Lubov – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2023
Aim/Purpose: The main purpose is to study the experience of using virtual team building as a means of forming educational and research teams in the context of the development of online education and its effect among students and teachers of higher educational institutions. Background: Methods ensuring effective engagement of students in learning…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Teamwork, Online Courses
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Nadia Wall; Jillee A. Walter; Lauren E. Stephens – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for and value of delivering high quality online learning experiences. Engaging students in an online environment poses unique challenges, such as cultivating a community of shared learning, encouraging student buy-in, and focusing student attention, which may be more easily achieved in an in-person…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Learning Experience, Educational Quality, Instructional Design
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Rantun, Rinny; Sarmita, Reggy – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2020
Purpose of this study was to identify factors contributing to the successful group performance from the perspective of business students. The in-depth interview was done followed by a survey derived forty-five items variables, after some tests 21 items variables removed due to low item remainder coefficient resulted in 24 items questionnaires. A…
Descriptors: College Students, Business Administration Education, Group Dynamics, Student Attitudes
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Xie, Kui; Hensley, Lauren C.; Law, Victor; Sun, Zhiru – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
The present study examined the relationships between perceived leadership, group cohesion, online engagement, self-regulation and learning outcomes. Data included surveys and online discussion logs from 171 students in an undergraduate online course. Through correlation analysis and structural equation modeling, the results revealed unique…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Leadership, Group Unity, Self Management
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Gomez, Jamie R.; Svihla, Vanessa – Chemical Engineering Education, 2019
In order to realize the potential of design challenges in core chemical engineering courses, we need pedagogical strategies that enhance peer-learning. We describe parleys--a consensus-building approach to design challenge decision-making and report results from two design-based research cycles. Analysis shows students learned by coming to…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Engineering Education, Cooperative Learning, Group Unity
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Nodeland, Brooke; Craig, Jessica M.; Meitl, Michele Bisaccia – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2020
Team-based learning (TBL) is a non-traditional method of instruction that utilizes permanent teams working together to solve problems and make decisions. The authors extend the prior TBL criminal justice literature through a detailed explanation of the use of application-focused activities in the classroom. Specifically, application-focused…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Criminology, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving
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García-Magariño, Iván; Plaza, Inmaculada; Igual, Raúl; Lombas, Andrés S.; Jamali, Hana – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2020
Most novice teachers and even some experienced teachers can lack appropriate tools for designing teaching strategies that ensure the quality of education. The ability of working in teams is crucial in educating professionals. The literature proves that social relations influence the performance of teams. For instance, the team cohesion is directly…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Group Unity, Teamwork, Group Dynamics
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Yilmaz, Ramazan; Karaoglan Yilmaz, Fatma Gizem; Keser, Hafize – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2020
The purpose of this research is to examine the effect of vertical and shared e-leadership approaches on self-regulated learning skills, motivation and group collaboration processes (group cohesion, group atmosphere, and group transactive memory system) in online project-based learning. The study was carried out according to a factorial…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Leadership Effectiveness, Participative Decision Making, Vertical Organization
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Fender, C. Melissa; Stickney, Lisa T. – Management Teaching Review, 2017
Group and team class decision-making activities often focus on demonstrating that "two heads are better than one." Typically, students solve a problem or complete an assessment individually, then in a group. Generally, the group does better and that is what the students learn. However, if that is all such an activity conveys, then a…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Group Dynamics, Cooperative Learning, Participative Decision Making
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Hansen, David E. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2016
Researchers have found that the electronic methods in use for online team communication today increase communication quality in project-based work situations. Because communication quality is known to influence group cohesion, the present research examined whether online student project teams are more cohesive than traditional teams. We tested…
Descriptors: College Students, State Universities, Marketing, Electronic Learning
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