Examines the idea of developing a play through a group effort. Draws on personal experiences of seeing this kind of work since the 1970s. Details techniques that have been used with various groups in a series of drama workshops over the years. (PA)

Students undertook a group assignment and assessed each other's contributions using two approaches: holistic and category-based. Holistic assessment yielded more groups who awarded members equal marks and a greater proportion of students with a large gain or loss of marks compared to other group members. Findings indicated that the holistic…

Presents a project where educators assign a joint class project to students at the University of Northern Carolina at Greensboro, at Indiana University, and at Fachhochschule Rheinland-Pfalz in Worms, Germany. Discusses how team members use the Internet to participate in electronic meetings leading to a group consensus. Encourages readers to…

Describes experiential learning exercises used to explore research in the nursing curriculum. Exercises are linked to clinical placements and opportunities for discussion and critical reflection are provided. (SK)

This article describes a new approach to teaching metabolic pathways, designed to engage students with the material, and its complexities. Based on a novel way of presenting metabolic pathways, in which the focus is placed on proteins rather than metabolites, simple tutorial-based exercises and mini-projects are described, bringing metabolism to…

Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) are increasingly used by Higher Education Institutions to manage and enhance teaching and learning, and research. Discussion, chat, scheduling, and other collaboration tools make VLEs especially useful systems for designing and managing complex group projects. In the spring semester of 2006, students at the…

To demonstrate a technique used in introductory psychology courses to introduce students to the phenomenon of illusions, workshop attendees at the Conference on Undergraduate Teaching of Psychology were asked to estimate the dimensions of a standard classroom garbage can placed on a table in the front of the room. Participants were asked to…

Tells about an assignment in a technical writing course, in which students are presented with a hypothetical problem faced by a business corporation; they then work in groups to write memos detailing possible solutions to the problem. (GW)

Reports on a project that attempted to help (1) citizen group leaders become better consumers of education services available through continuing education departments and (2) continuing education administrators examine the terms, risks, and benefits of relationships with citizen groups. (CH)

Describes how a "strip story" activity (reassembling a text from strips of paper containing the text's sentences) develops reciprocity, the interaction between reading and writing as the reader negotiates a text and the writer assists the process. (MM)

When hypnosis training was used in groups, students demonstrated goal attainment for a diverse range of personally identified problems. Improvement was also noted for anxiety and depression. (Author)

Presents principles and techniques in teaching human development and family life education to small groups of students. (SB)

Discusses the organization of a college German club and gives ideas for social, cultural, and educational activities for a club to sponsor. (EKN)

Suggests an extented exercise to help students interpret myths and discover sex-role stereotyping in them. (TJ)

Analysis of 1,475 transcripts of online discussions among 7 student learning groups (n=38) with diverse learning styles indicated that most groups seem to respond to diversity by accommodation or elaboration rather than transformation. Few groups seem to invest the resources needed to capitalize on cognitive diversity and engage in nonroutine…