OSU Center for Teaching and Learning

Tag: group projects

  • The challenges and rewards of a decade-long collaborative student project

    By Hailey Ferris, Rebecca Olson, and Mckenna Sonday, OSU College of Liberal Arts Introduction (Rebecca) In 2016, I initiated what would become a long-term teaching and public humanities project, a student-edited open textbook Romeo and Juliet, published with OSU’s Open Educational Resources. An innovative edition of a Shakespeare play insofar as it was designed by…

  • Timely Teaching Tips: Weeks 5 and 6 – Student community building

    By Emma Larkins, OSU Center for Teaching and Learning Study groups, social annotation and group projects One of the key roles of instructors can be to support community building, which spurs engagement, interaction and collaboration among learners. Community building activities take various forms synchronously and asynchronously. They may be in a classroom or lab, in…

  • Implementing and Assessing Collaborative Group Work

    The term group work is most often associated with any form of learning activity where students work together. However, there are two approaches to group work. Cooperative learning is an instructional activity that involves students working together in ad hoc groups within a class period to achieve a learning goal (Major, 2015). Examples include the…