500 Tips on Group Learning

Including sections on creative thinking, problems in groups, feedback mechanisms, dealing with conflict, and gender issues within groups, this volume is designed to aid educators and trainers to create more effective group learning situations.

Phil Race is Programme Director of the Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education at European Business School (London), where he is also a visiting professor.

Acknowledgements

v

Foreword

vii

Learning with others

1

(26)

Learning about learning

2

(3)

Group learning means learning by doing

5

(3)

Group learning means learning through feedback

8

(3)

Things going wrong can be good group learning

11

(3)

Group learning means motivation... wanting to learn...

14

(3)

Behaviours of a good leader

17

(2)

Group learning includes following

19

(2)

Benefits of group learning

21

(6)

Getting groups going

27

(24)

Preparing learners for group work

28

(2)

Ways of forming groups

30

(3)

Group size considerations

33

(2)

Getting groups started

35

(2)

Icebreakers: some ideas

37

(4)

Establishing ground rules for groups

41

(3)

Reducing the bystander effect

44

(2)

Creating group cohesion

46

(3)

Setting shared goals

49

(2)

Particular group learning contexts

51

(18)

Tutorials

52

(3)

Tutorials for adult distance learners

55

(2)

Home groups

57

(2)

Action learning sets

59

(2)

Tutorless groups

61

(3)

Be a group member yourself!

64

(2)

Team teaching

66

(3)

Exercises and processes for groups

69

(20)

Ringing the changes

70

(2)

Post-it exercise on how people learn

72

(2)

Feedback exercise for groups

74

(2)

Post-its and flipcharts

76

(3)

Helping learners to write reflections on group learning

79

(3)

Virtual group work

82

(3)

A case study

85

(4)

Groups behaving badly?

89

(30)

Group member behaviours that damage group work

91

(8)

Group facilitator behaviours that can damage group work

99

(11)

Institutional factors that can damage group work

110

(4)

Conflict in group work

114

(2)

Gender issues in group work

116

(3)

Assessing group learning

119

(11)

Take the simplest path

120

(1)

Divide and concur

121

(1)

Add differentials

122

(2)

Add contribution marks

124

(2)

Add more tasks

126

(1)

Test them orally

127

(2)

Test them in writing

129

(1)

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