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Building Learning Teams: The Key to Harnessing the Power of Small Groups in Management Education

Building Learning Teams: The Key to Harnessing the Power of Small Groups in Management Education

Building learning teams: The key to harnessing the power of small groups in management education

Introduction

Post-secondary educators have been using small groups to facilitate learning some time and in a wide variety of ways (e.g. for comparative discussion of different approaches, see Fink 2004; Johnson et al., 2007; Millis and Cottell, 1998). In management education, small groups are most often used to enrich students’ understanding of course concepts and in one of two ways. Probably the most common is as a supplement to lecture/discussion or case-based courses and involves assigning a group project and/or presentation (with much or all of the work to be done outside of the class). The other ...

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