Assignments Group work Instructors 
Faculty Focus
JULY 15, 2025
Unlike group work, cooperative learning activities are highly structured, with defined roles, steps, and time limits. One student articulated the need for relatable, real-world, authentic tasks, stating, “My favorite activity was creating videos to connect with the assignments in class.”
Faculty Focus
JULY 15, 2025
Unlike group work, cooperative learning activities are highly structured, with defined roles, steps, and time limits. One student articulated the need for relatable, real-world, authentic tasks, stating, “My favorite activity was creating videos to connect with the assignments in class.”
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Edsurge
JULY 17, 2023
Educator Jen Manly, left, and EdSurge reporter Nadia Tamez-Robledo address the audience during a discussion about the challenges students face while doing group work. Why does group work suck so much? And why do teachers and professors continue to assign it? The second question is, why does group work suck so much?
Edsurge
JANUARY 9, 2019
The instructor can decide if you want to let anyone who has the link be able to collaborate, protect your ideas with a password, or require people to set up accounts before they can engage. This is just one example of a tool that makes it easy for student-to-student interaction without requiring much effort from instructors to set it up.
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 11, 2022
It has been estimated that college students across the globe devote in excess of a billion hours per year to “disposable” assignments (Wiley, 2016). Students view the work as simply a hurdle to be crossed, and once submitted and assessed, worthy of nothing more than being discarded. What a waste!
Faculty Focus
AUGUST 27, 2023
Our group hoped that the mind map’s focus on associations and connections would offer opportunities for learning that were particularly relevant to teaching cultural connections. We gave students a similar assignment at the end of the semester, either on their own or in groups. Medical education , 36(5), 426–431.
Faculty Focus
AUGUST 27, 2023
Our group hoped that the mind map’s focus on associations and connections would offer opportunities for learning that were particularly relevant to teaching cultural connections. We gave students a similar assignment at the end of the semester, either on their own or in groups. Medical education , 36(5), 426–431.
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