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Subject: Enforcing solo work

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Steve Draper
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30/05/2007 11:39  
Simon
I've heard you talk about this, but here's a question I couldn't answer when David Nicol asked it.
For me, a sig. part of your learning design is how it explicitly addresses an emerging principle I've discussed in my paper in the keynote session I shared with David: the issue of getting solo work and group work to be held in a productive balance and relationship.

In your design, you start each new topic by having students work together on problems: so they don't get stuck, do get confident. then you get them to work solo on further problems to ensure they have each individually mastered it. How do you stop them collaborating when they shouldn't, especially since you have arranged for them to feel happy working together?

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Simon Bates
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30/05/2007 15:29  
Hi Steve,

I am not sure that I have a ready answer to that one!

It has to work on trust, I think. We try and highlight the benefits of working together to a point, while at the same time stressing the need to do it for yourself. I fully accept the tension that is implicit here.

It's my feeling that the students don't see this as too much of a problem in terms of what is expected of them; the line in the sand (to them) defining what is acceptable within the group and what needs to be a solo effort seems to be pretty clear. (But of course, for a variety of reasons, not all of them stay on the right side of the line!)

Cheers
Simon
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