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 ...

During your time at CU Boulder, you will most likely work in groups for class projects. Working on group projects allows you to build teamwork skills, learn how to distribute workloads and ...

Everyone knows how annoying group projects can be, especially you’re stuck working with someone who isn’t doing their fair share of work. But even if all team members are committed to working hard and ...

For many students, group projects elicit feelings of frustration due to improperly managed or unequally distributed labor or burdensome time allocated to an assignment. However, group work can give ...

Group work is a time-tested strategy in many classrooms, but educators are starting to rethink how to evaluate these projects not just on the content students learn, but the skills they hone to work ...

It's all too common for students to report bad experiences with group projects, as a boom of internet memes on the topic confirm. This article is part of the collection: The EdSurge Podcast. If you’ve ...

One person often gets stuck with thankless tasks—and the problem exists not only in schools but in the workplace. Here’s something I wrote about the topic for Character Lab as a Tip of the Week: “How ...

One of the hardest things for children to do is to take responsibility for the things they control—namely, themselves and their actions. The most successful children are the ones who are able to take ...