Collaboration Frustration
Students and instructors share ambivalence when it comes to groupwork online. When it goes well, the learning experience is positive and provides a foundation for future collaborative work. When it doesn’t, it can be like a bad case of food poisoning – you’ll want to avoid a repeat episode at all costs.
This month’s edition of Online Classroom has a brief but useful article about teamwork: Activities 101: Improving Results and Reducing Frustrations from Team Activities. The summary: the most common reasons for learner frustrations include inadequate preparation and communication, and the most common reasons for faculty frustration include the need to deal with learner frustrations.
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I’ll be working with some colleagues to develop an orientation piece on Group Work for learners. Look for it this Spring as one of the Learning Toolkits on LEAP and as part of OLT’s Orientation to Online Learning in WebCT.
If you have any ideas/resources to share here – they would be much appreciated.
Cindy