Using Group-based Learning in Higher Education

The research papers and case studies contained in this volume explore the technique of group work in higher education. The contributors explore project work, self-development groups, the management of group projects, peer evaluation and learning-team techniques. Part 1 The Context; Chapter 1 Introduction, Roy Gregory, Lin Thorley; Chapter 2 An Overview from Higher Education, Diana M R Tribe; Part 2 The Experience; Learning Group Skills; Chapter 3 The UPshot Programme: Improving Group-work Skills for Business and Accounting Students, Diane Garland; Chapter 4 Facilitating the Formation of Effective and Creative Working Groups, John Robson; Chapter 5 Towards Self-managed Projects: Learning Team Techniques, Victor Newman, Geoff Nelder; Chapter 6 Facilitating Team-work in the Curriculum, Myszka Guzkowska, Ivan Kent; Chapter 7 Synectics in Higher Education, Graham Rawlinson; Managing Group Learning; Chapter 8 The Academic Management of Group Projects, Brian Stone; Chapter 9 The Development of a ‘Learning in Groups’ Course for Academic Staff, Roy Gregory, Lin Thorley; Chapter 10 The Effects of Group Composition upon Students’ Perceptions of Their Learning, C Dawson, P Lord, J Baggott; Chapter 11 Peer Evaluation in Practice: Experience from a Major Group Project, Brian Mathews; Using group-work to encourage student autonomy; Chapter 12 Facilitating Understanding of Group Dynamics, Katherine Cuthbert; Chapter 13 Self-development Groups on a Diploma in Management Studies Course, Peter Cuthbert; Chapter 14 Using Group-based Learning in Chemical Engineering Studies, G S Bainbridge; Chapter 15 Learning Journals for Evaluation of Group-based Learning, Marjorie Talbot; Chapter 16 Working in Groups and Teams, Jim McNally; Case Studies Involving Group-work; Chapter 17 A Case Study of a Group-project in Aerospace Design Engineering, Martyn S Pressnell; Chapter 18 Group-project Work: Two Enterprise Case Studies, Annie Grant; Chapter 19 Development of Group Skills using a Linked Assignment, R G Harris, M D Bramhall, I M Robinson; Chapter 20 Management Indecision: Using Group-work in Teaching Creativity, Peter McHardy, Steven Henderson; Chapter 21 Preparing Student History Teachers as Subject Coordinators, Sneh Shah; Purpose-designed Modules Using Group-work; Chapter 22 Using Group-projects in the Teaching of Mathematics to Electrical Engineering Students, Judy Wilkinson; Chapter 23 History Resource Packs for Schools, David Nicholls; Chapter 24 The Development and Implementation of Group-based Learning on an Accounting Degree, Trevor Hassall, Sarah Lewis; Chapter 25 Towards the Reflective Practitioner, Pamela Hunt, Robert McGovern; Part 3 Part Three: Postscript; Chapter 26 Present Challenges, Roy Gregory, Lin Thorley;