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 ...
Whether you're in school or at work, a group project can be a real double-edged sword. Working on your own can be preferable if you are prone to distraction or don't want to be subject to anyone ...
Everyone has a group project horror story. Maybe you had a classmate who got away with doing none of the work. Or maybe a group member doubled down on doing something incorrectly. For the really ...
“When I was a student, group work made me so nervous,” a professor confided to me over Zoom. “I just did all the work because I didn’t trust anyone else with my grade.” Her story is not uncommon—and ...
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 ...
On a recent Saturday, I stared at my group’s ongoing assignment for English class, getting lost in thought and wondering if anyone else in my group would work on it over the weekend. As a high school ...
Many students in creative disciplines hesitate to take risks. They avoid untested ideas, stick to familiar techniques and stay within the bounds of what worked before. For educators, this creates ...
In the working world, most successful ventures are group projects. No car is manufactured by a single person, no airplane is built and flown by one person, and no surgery is performed by a single ...
Working as part of a team can be a great way to improve productivity for any organization. However, while most employees will often try to give their best, some will always have a tendency to do the ...
It's February. My professor has realized winter break is long gone and has begun to assign actual work. Sigh. I'm swamped with papers, problem sets, labs and the all too familiar group projects. But I ...