Product Description

This handbook is a comprehensive guide for anyone involved in groupwork, with advice and practical exercises to develop group learning skills for learners and tutors. Thoroughly updated with valuable new material throughout on group learning and collaborating online.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #321153 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Review

'This is a truly excellent book. With a solid theoretical underpinning, it is wide-ranging, accessible, practical and, above all, useful...Whatever your role, if you want to enable groups to function and learn well, read and use this book!' - Bob Rotheram, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

'What a great book! One of the all-time great writers on small group work joins forces with the queen of online learning. This book is readable, theoretically rigorous, practical, and excellently presented.' - Trish Greenhalgh, University College London, UK

'The book progresses well from the theoretical underpinning of group behaviour to assessment within groups and pratcial check lists for leaders. The online learning points are well integrated and not viewed as add-ons. In its general framework, the book is extremely coherent with excellent use of bullet points, diagrams, tables and shading to encourage clarity of thought.' - British Journal of Educational Technology

From the Back Cover

Learning in Groups: A handbook for improving groupwork

Fourth edition

David Jaques and Gilly Salmon

Learning in groups in both face-to-face and online contexts allows students to have greater scope to negotiate meaning and express themselves and their own ideas. It also helps them to establish far more effective relationships and can play a central role in developing key professional skills, such as listening, presenting ideas, persuasion, self-direction, self-monitoring and team working.

This fully revised fourth edition of Learning in Groups, updated throughout with guidance on group learning and collaborating online, not only promotes understanding of group methods, but also develops group learning skills in students and tutors by showing a range of practical exercises and group experiences to be used.

The areas covered include:

• Characteristics of groups
• The place of leadership
• The processes of collaboration and communication
• How students learn
• Setting and structuring tasks
• Reflection and emotional intelligence
• The effects of the learning context
• Action research
• Assessment and evaluation of group work
• How to make learning more real

Practical and accessible, Learning in Groups includes case studies, exercises and training activities for both face-to-face and online contexts that add to its focus and depth. It is invaluable reading for all those involved in tutoring and training, and facilitating and moderating online, and will help to develop powerful groups skills for both tutors and students.

David Jaques is an independent educational and organisational consultant, and an experienced groupwork and teamwork trainer. He was previously Head of the Educational Methods Unit at Oxford Brookes University.

Gilly Salmon is a Professor of E-Learning at the University of Leicester, UK, and is author of a number of best-selling titles, including E-Moderating and E-Tivities. She was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2006.

Authors' website is available at:

www.learningingroups.com

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About the Author
Independent Education Constultant, UK University of Leicester, UK

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Customer Reviews

juicy research
I've been facilitating groups since 1988. This book consolidates what's taken me 20 years to learn, and taught me plenty more besides. It's organised and written in a way that's easy to follow, without every patronising the reader. In particular, the research shines out. The authors don't just make statements of opinion, they back up concepts with plenty of solid research. The research doesn't weigh the book down or get in the way of the flow - it anchors it to reality. The most clear and comprehensive you're likely to find on the subject - an excellent investment.