I'm working at The Teaching and Advisory Unit at Copenhagen Business School
and currently researching on collaborative learning in project work.
I would like to know, if you know of research focused on enhancing the
student learning in larger groupbased, problemsolving group work at
university and business school level.
Groups of students are expected to work independently with some content
guidance from a consultant teacher. But it seems to me that the independent
processes in a project work - students on their own - has a status of a sort
of black box with little attention on ensuring that these processes work
constructively toward the end of a project. I'm looking for research that
focus on bringing light into this black box, or tests of techniques that
students can use to manage constructively through the processes with a
better learning outcome with regard to generic skills as well as cognitive
development. It's not just a matter of better counselling.
When looking at the energi students put into project work, there seems to be
coincidences that filter the energy away from deliberate learning and into
counterproductive frustrations. This influence the learning-outcome, but is
often regarded as a student-problem - rather than a question of looking into
what is actually happening in group-based project work, and how the design
of this learning method can be improved/developed to function more in
accordance with the ideals.
I'm looking forward to hear of experierences, references or thoughts on this
matter.
Best regards,
Mette Rasmussen
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