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What is Effective Team Assignment

Chapter 136
Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration
Assignments that truly require group interaction because they cannot be divided up and completed by individual members working alone. In most cases, team assignments will generate a high level of interaction if they 1) require teams to use course concepts to make decisions that involve a complex set of issues and, 2) enable teams to report their decisions in a simple form. When assignments emphasize making decisions, intragroup discussion is the natural and rational way to complete the task.
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Technology Assignments Using Team-Based Learning
Mary McCord (Central Missouri State University, USA) and Larry Michaelsen (University of Central Missouri, USA)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch136
Abstract
Educators face an increasingly difficult task in preparing students for today’s information technology and/or information systems (IT/IS) jobs. The foundation must ensure that students master solitary tasks such as programming and logical design. However, the reality of IT/IS jobs requires that students must also be prepared to deal with increasingly complex design projects and work in teams made up of peers who come from many different business disciplines and bring the requirements of multiple organizational functions. As a result, IT/IS educators must design their courses to give students experience working in teams and on problems that reflect the complexity of the business environments in which they will be employed.
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