Team learning

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Team learning

Issues

Can team skills be taught ?

According to Okudan (2001) “it was proposed that the high performing team skills training and education could improve the performance of student design teams.”. Half of an engineering class received three two-hour training, but globally the results have not been found significant and the authors call for more research that also try out different more in depth-training.

Links

• Student Teams in Engineering This Webpage from the engineering education Foundation Coalition has several interesting documents for teachers.

• Building Blocks for Teams, Teaching and Learning with Technology, PennState.

References

• Katzenbach, J.R. and Smith, D.K. (1992) Wisdom of Teams, Harvard Business School Press

• Okudan, G.E., Horner, D. and Russell, M. (2001) Achieving High Performing Engineering Design Teams: A Curriculum Intervention Study, Proceedings, International Conference on Engineering Education. PDF