Group Work: What Could Go Wrong? with Peggy Brickman. Part 1.

Teaching for Student Success

If you are interested in using group work in your courses but might be a bit intimidated, if you are using group work but are frustrated by it, if you have used group work but have sworn it off, I encourage any and all to listen to this two part series on the problems of group work and possible solutions.

In this episode I have a conversation with Dr. Peggy Brickman of the University of Georgia about group work but from an unusual perspective. Instead of discussing the evidence demonstrating the positive impacts of well-designed group work on student success, we discuss the problems of group work. These discussions may provide the encouragement you need to finally implement group, or may provide a solution to reduce your frustration with group work, or may convince you that group work is worth another try.

Listen and see.