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Legemaate, Myrte; Grol, Roel; Huisman, Jeroen; Oolbekkink-Marchand, Helma; Nieuwenhuis, Loek – Quality in Higher Education, 2022
Despite increasing scholarly interest in the phenomenon of quality culture, the existing literature is largely silent on or ambiguous concerning how to realise such a quality culture. In this paper, insights from the field of socio-technical systems design (STSD) are used to explore how to enhance a quality culture. STSD seems to be able to add to…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Higher Education, Organizational Culture, Cultural Influences
Elizabeth Catherine Bruner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how instructional designers in higher education in the United States described their experiences with collective affective emergent states (team cohesion and collective efficacy) when collaborating with faculty to design online courses. The foundation for the study was the…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Partnerships in Education, Teacher Collaboration, College Faculty
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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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Nipp, Mary Beth; Palenque, Stephanie Maher – Journal of Instructional Research, 2017
The thought of group work, or CLC Groups often strikes fear and loathing in the hearts and minds of both students and instructors. According to Swan, Shen, and Hiltz (2006) collaborative work presents the possibilities of many difficulties including a largely unequal contribution of group participants, an inability of the students to manage the…
Descriptors: Success, Teamwork, Educational Strategies, Best Practices
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Harris, Garth; Bristow, Dennis – e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 2016
When tasked with group projects, students often struggle with teamwork and tend to overlook the importance of group self-regulation and its role in effective collaborative work. The pedagogy was implemented in semester long university level new product development courses. The pedagogy illustrates how educators can use student generated weekly…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Student Projects, Group Dynamics, Innovation
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Kamau, Caroline; Spong, Abigail – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Faulty group processes have harmful effects on performance but there is little research about intervention protocols to pre-empt them in higher education. This naturalistic experiment compared a control cohort with an inducted cohort. The inducted cohort attended a workshop, consultations, elected a leader and used tools (a group log and group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teamwork, Protocol Analysis, Cohort Analysis
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Oliveri, Maria Elena; Lawless, Rene; Molloy, Hillary – ETS Research Report Series, 2017
The literature and the employee and workforce surveys rank collaborative problem solving (CPS) among the top 5 most critical skills necessary for success in college and the workforce. This paper provides a review of the literature on CPS and related terms, including a discussion of their definitions, importance to higher education and workforce…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving, College Readiness, Career Readiness
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Curseu, Petru L.; Pluut, Helen – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Collaborative learning has important group-level benefits, yet most studies in higher education only focus on individual benefits of collaborative learning experiences. This study extends these insights by testing a model in which teamwork quality mediates the impact of several compositional differences (gender, nationality and teamwork expertise…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Higher Education, Gender Differences
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Kormanski, Chuck – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 1990
Used group development stage theory to investigate team development patterns in an academic setting. Twenty-nine teams of undergraduate college students enrolled in a study skills improvement course met weekly for five weeks and completed the Team Development Rating Scale at the conclusion of the meeting. Found some support for three patterns of…
Descriptors: College Students, Conflict Resolution, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics
Bolduc, William J. – Feedback, 1998
Undergraduates enrolled in a field video production class at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington completed a low ropes challenge course as a team-building activity. Found that the ropes course contributed to group processes and getting students to trust one another, although its contribution to building intragroup cohesiveness was…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Experiential Learning, Film Production, Group Dynamics
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Hirata, Isao, Jr. – Journal of the American College Health Association, 1980
The most outstanding characteristic of the American College Health Association is its propensity for a ceaseless and continuing altercation. This paper stresses the importance of teamwork within the medical profession. (JN)
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Personnel, Conflict, Conflict Resolution
Winer, Michael; Ray, Karen – 1994
This book provides activities and examples for learning about creating, sustaining, and enjoying new ways of working together. The book helps to develop a new language to deal with complicated situations on the journey to collaboration. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1, "How Do We Begin?" shares a story to develop the scenario. Part 2,…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Community Cooperation, Cooperation, Cooperative Planning
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Grier, Phillip M. – Journal of the American College Health Association, 1980
An historical perspective of the American College Health Association emphasizes the importance of teamwork among health personnel. The current trend in litigation toward health care professionals and the regulatory role of government has resulted in an apparent increase in legal activity, and necessitates teamwork between doctors and lawyers. (JN)
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Group Unity, Health Education, Health Personnel
Mattessich, Paul W.; Monsey, Barbara R. – 1992
This literature review has the goals of: (1) reviewing and summarizing the existing research literature on factors which influence the success of collaboration; and (2) reporting the results of the research literature review so that people who want to initiate or enhance a collaborative effort can benefit from the experience of others. The review…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Collegiality, Community Cooperation, Cooperation
Wilson, E. B. – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2006
High-performing boards operating at a distinguishable level of excellence, all exhibit a culture of cohesiveness. And a compelling codicil is that these boards did not deliberately set out to become cohesive and perhaps do not even know they are cohesive. This article examines the value of cohesion to university governing boards, explicitly…
Descriptors: Trustees, Governing Boards, Organizational Culture, Group Unity
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