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Valuing diversity

Biggs, J. (1997) Teaching across and within cultures: the issue of international students. in Murray-Harvey, R. & Silins, H.C. (eds) Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Advancing International Perspectives. Proceedings of the Higher Education Research & Development Society of Australasia Conference Adelaide South Australia 8-11 July 1997.

Kennedy, P. (2002) Learning cultures and learning styles: myth-understandings about adult (Hong Kong) Chinese learners. International Journal of Lifelong Education 21(5), pp430-445.

Smith, D.G. & Schonfeld, N.B. (2000) The benefits of diversity: what the research tells us. About Campus November-December pp16-23.

Volet, S.E. & Ang, G. (1998) Culturally mixed groups on international campuses: an opportunity for inter-cultural learning. Higher Education Research & Development 17(1), pp5-23.

 

Succeeding with groupwork

A useful set of overheads introduces groupwork.

How to give a bad talk - 10 commandments (and other oral presentation advice), University of California-Berkeley

 

Other useful readings

Bacon, D., Stewart, K. & Silver, W. (1999) Lessons from the best and worst student team experiences: how a teacher can make the difference. Journal of Management Education 23(5), pp467-488.

Bonanno, H., Jones, J. & English, L. (1998) Improving group satisfaction: making groups work in a first-year undergraduate course. Teaching in Higher Education 3(3), pp365-382.

Bourner, J., Hughes, M.& Bourner, T. (2001) First-year undergraduate experiences of group project work. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 26(1), pp19-35.

De Vita, G. (2001) The use of group work in large and diverse business management classes: some critical issues. The International Journal of Management Education. 1(3), pp.26-34.

Felder, R.M. & Brent, R. (2001) Effective strategies for cooperative learning. Journal of Cooperation & Collaboration in College Teaching 10(2), pp69-75.

Heller, P. & Heller, K. (1999) Cooperative group problem solving in physics. University of Minnesota.

Johnston, C. (2001) Student perceptions of learning in first year in an economics and commerce faculty. Higher Education Research & Development (20)2, pp169-184.