We run a small MEng in my department which relies (to a large extent)
upon the students working on (and learning about) material in groups.
One of the ways we help this along is by an early module on managment
skills which spends some time on group work. Our aim is to train
all the students in facilitator skills and to impress upon them
that they each have a responsibility to facilitate all the group activities
which follow. A paper on this approach can be found at:
http://www.ee.ed.ac.uk/~gerard/Teaching/index.html
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Gerard M Blair, Senior Lecturer, The Department of Electrical Engineering,
The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Email: gerard@ee.ed.ac.uk - Home page: http://www.ee.ed.ac.uk/~gerard/