Group work refers to learning experiences in which students work together on the same task. Group work can help build a positive and engaging learning community through peer learning and teaching.

Tell you about a new student guide to effective group work developed at Lafayette College. Share how some newsletter readers start the semester. Lafayette College’s mechanical-engineering department ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Assigning group work will finally be less of a headache for teachers. Assigning group work will finally be less ...

(This is the third post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) In Part One, Valentina Gonzalez, Olivia Montero Petraglia, Jenny Vo, and Jennifer Mitchell provided their ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are your recommendations for how best to set up and organize small groups in classroom instruction? Many teachers find that well-organized student small-group ...

I’m hard pressed to think of someone else in higher ed who is more influential in starting conversations about teaching and learning than James Lang (Cheating Lessons and Small Teaching), and writing ...

A few years ago, we hired an adjunct professor to teach a three-hour night class. After a few weeks, he came to us in frustration because he couldn’t get the students to discuss the material, and when ...

The Waltham Group is a network of student-run volunteer programs on a local, regional, and national scope. Together with members of the community and local organizations, the Waltham Group implements ...

Abygail is a senior at Brandeis University, majoring in Biochemistry and Politics, with a minor in Chemistry. She is serving as the President of Waltham Group, as well as a co-coordinator for ...

In May, when one of my daughters returned home from her sophomore year, I asked her to sum up how she felt about college life at the halfway point. Socially, after months of disruption caused by the ...

The Grove Collective is partnering with Hyperluxe through The Brandr Group to create group licensing opportunities for student athletes. Group licensing allows brands to easily work with multiple ...

Betsy Maher, executive director of Save the Dunes, said the organization has worked with Pergiel for years, and that he ...