Our project report

We have written a report which reflects this blog and gives a bit more depth to what we have been exploring. You can read more about our groupwork adventures here. There is still scope to develop this further so we shall be back for more posts in the future! ...

Reflections on socialisation in group work.

Considering Gilly Salmon’s concept of E-moderation I find it interesting that she introduces a number of stages to socialise students work online. When setting group work – whether in-class or online I am unaware of similar stages for socialising groups....

Locked down, but by no means out!

It’s been a while since we posted as there have been some changes in the world. We have adjusted to the lockdown, found good routines with the kids and pets and established our new norms. We’ve been busy since the last post. Working remotely has sparked...

Broadening our horizons

We have recently taken the opportunity to sit back and take stock of what we have achieved so far. Our original aim was to work with one module to create output. This did not go to plan exactly and so our focus has widened to other modules. We devised a scenario...

Progress against objectives so far

Prepare session We have delivered 2 sessions on group work to the original group looking at solutions to problems and helping to establish and organise their OneNote projects. We also asked for students to volunteer to help us with our research and initially there...

Experimenting with interactive video

One of the posible outputs for this project is the production of an interactive video on ‘Advice for students working in groups’ featuring a number of scenarios devised and produced by UoN students.  To better understand what would be involved in the...

Reflections and new directions

Our original proposal planned to recruit students in order to help us to create content. However, as the HMRC has stopped the use of financial incentives to pay students this has proved difficult. Since these changes our interaction with student volunteers has...