Cooperative Group Work

The emerging new breed of IS (group decision support systems and decision simulation, multimedia, next-generation knowledge-based systems, deductive databases and DBMSs, and such like, together with the evolving networking capabilities) will have a more significant impact on the way people work than have ‘conventional’ IT products. This will have implications for what one might call the ‘cognitive style’ of the user interaction. This paper describes further a view of the organization of organizations that has already been sketched briefly elsewhere (Hutchison & Rosenberg, 1993; Hutchison, 1994), and proposes a strategy for the formal modelling of cooperative group work.

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Increasing explanatory behaviour, problem-solving, and reasoning within classes using cooperative group work

Instructional Science ◽

10.1007/s11251-010-9130-9 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 349-366 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Robyn M. Gillies ◽

Michele Haynes

Keyword(s):

Problem Solving ◽

Group Work ◽

Behaviour Problem ◽

Cooperative Group

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Engaging Students in Art Beyond the K-12 School Environment

10.28971/142014dm74 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Melanie Ducharme

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Community ◽

Group Work ◽

School Environment ◽

Community Organization ◽

Learning Experience ◽

Cooperative Group ◽

Common Goal ◽

Community Based ◽

Work Of Art ◽

K 12

This purpose of this thesis is to investigate a unit of instruction for a mural project with a community organization. The question I sought to answer through this research was: How can I design a unit of instruction in collaboration with a local organization that will potentially engage students in a community-based work of art while also promoting a sense of community among the students? Though this thesis research, I learned to collaborate with an organization to create a hypothetical unit of instruction. Also, I wanted to discover how I can create a learning experience that is engaging and personally meaningful to students. The unit of study that I created is inquiry-based towards sparking the interest of students through open-ended questioning. I designed lessons that involved cooperative group work where students would work towards a common goal. This thesis will show that cooperative group work has the potential to develop a sense of community among students while meeting the needs of a community organization.

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