Using Group-Based Learning in Higher Education

by Gregory, Roy

• ISBN13: 9780749412463
• ISBN10: 0749412461
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-07-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 8
The Contributors	p. 9
Preface	p. 15
Introduction	p. 19
An Overview from Higher Education	p. 25
The UPshot Programme: Improving Group-Work Skills for Business and Accounting Students	p. 37
Facilitating the Formation of Effective and Creative Working Groups	p. 40
Towards Self-managed Projects: Learning Team Techniques	p. 45
Facilitating Team-work in the Curriculum	p. 49
Synectics in Higher Education	p. 54
The Academic Management of Group Projects	p. 59
The Development of a 'Learning in Groups' Course for Academic Staff	p. 64
The Effects of Group Composition upon Students' Perceptions of Their Learning	p. 70
Peer Evaluation in Practice: Experience from a Major Group Project	p. 76
Facilitating Understanding of Group Dynamics	p. 83
Self-development Groups on a Diploma in Management Studies Course	p. 89
Using Group-based Learning in Chemical Engineering Studies	p. 100
Learning Journals for Evaluation of Group-based Learning	p. 105
Working in Groups and Teams	p. 113
A Case Study of a Group-project in Aerospace Design Engineering	p. 123
Group-project Work: Two Enterprise Case Studies	p. 127
Development of Group Skills using a Linked Assignment	p. 136
Management Indecision: Using Group-work in Teaching Creativity	p. 141
Preparing Student History Teachers as Subject Coordinators	p. 148
Using Group-projects in the Teaching of Mathematics to Electrical Engineering Students	p. 155
History Resource Packs for Schools	p. 160
The Development and Implementation of Group-based Learning on an Accounting Degree	p. 166
Towards the Reflective Practitioner	p. 171
Present Challenges	p. 179
Further Reading	p. 187
Index	p. 189
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