Monday, July 21, 2014

Supporting Performance and Learning

Since so many bloggers in our class do not visit the DB much, I'm going to solicit help via my blog as well as the DB. From the past semester of online classes which required we work in groups or teams of 4, I realized that there should be a course offered to students to help us acquire the skills and abilities necessary to work successfully in groups. Since most online students do not know each other, trust (or lack of)is a major problem. After working on everything individually in a competitive arena, the gears have switched and now we've discovered the sum is better than the individual parts. It takes some getting used to. Conflict resolution, communication, distribution of roles and responsibilities, facilitation and tactful, sensitive leadership are all requirements in addition to humility (there's a word we don't hear often anymore, knowledge on some aspect of project and appreciation of what others are contributing to the team. In articles I've read, many companies are asking universities to focus more on preparing students to work effectively in teams when they hit the "real working world". Hence, I would like to set up a wiki (??), generate a Twitter thread (??) or use some other tool to provide support for the learning of the much sought-after skill or ability of group work and solicit others to share their ideas on how to facilitate the process, their success stories, nightmare team, etc. What do you think about the topic? Do you think it would draw interest and be helpful? Especially, do you have any platform(s)or tools you think would be particularly to use? My creativity is at a super low point and I crave your input!!!! Thanks.

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