Group items tagged

Ecampus video about creating assignments for online courses, with tips on managing group assignments.

Good selection of tools for online presentations, etc.

Research findings: "Faculty who assign team projects without preparing their students to work in teams greatly increase the likelihood that students will have a negative experience and student learning and performance will suffer. Teaching teamwork content is necessary but not sufficient for important educational and performance outcomes. Providing ongoing teamwork support is critical to team success and student learning."

Great description of using twitter in an English literature / history class in order to help students make the connections and see the bigger picture.

"students appear to have a subjective threshold; they are willing to invest a certain amount of energy in any given assignment, and once the limit is reached outsourcing is sought as the means to quit without losing the qualification" "[Contract Cheating Firm's] marketing is pervasive and hard to dismiss, predicated on the students' perceived risks of failure and the disparity of students' abilities to deliver solutions that meet the academic requirements of their course"