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Group Work

6/3/2017

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As discussed in my post about discussion forums and learning (below), each of the PIDP 3250 students has the opportunity to facilitate at least one discussion forum topic. I feel very fortunate to have had group work as my topic, as I believe that group work is very important to adult education. I think my biggest surprise when I started my research on this topic was the amount of information there is about  group work that I had not heard or thought about before (even though I have used group activities many times to facilitate learning, and I thought I knew a fair amount about it).

​One area that was quite new to me, was the differentiation between four types of group work: cooperative learning; collaborative learning; problem-based learning; and team-based learning. The ​Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Volume 25, Numbers 3 and 4 (2014) includes several articles that talk about these four types of group work. I think the three articles below do an excellent job of comparing and contrasting many of the elements of cooperative learning, collaborative learning, team-based learning, and problem-based learning.

The participants in the PIDP 3250 course added some very insightful comments and suggestions about group work to the discussion forum that I want to include in my Blog, so I have added a summary of the discussion forum below. Prior to posting the forum summary and the articles I have included a video that was highlighted in the first thread of the discussion forum, as I think this video does a great job of highlighting some of the important features of group work.

[Boulder]. (2011, July 23). ​Group Work in the College Classroom [Video File]. Retrieved June 13, 2017 from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a7hP9doTBg
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1/18/2021 03:27:09 am

Thanks for sharing this! It is super useful

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