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Using Group Formation, the instructor creates a survey that investigates students’ preferences when working in groups. Based on the survey answers, the tool automatically groups students with other peers who answered similarly (to ensure compatibility) or differently (to complement each other). After all the groups are decided, students proceed to work on the group project.
Students select a company in groups, prepare interview questions, and interview them to collect the necessary information to prepare a business plan. Afterwards, they draft a business plan and work on their presentations together. This process promotes critical enquiry and enables students to apply their knowledge to a real-world problem.
Groups submit their business plan drafts to the Peer Review tool, where they provide feedback on other groups’ work based on a set of criteria. This process stimulates meaningful dialogue and trains critical thinking skills. Based on the feedback, groups proceed to revise the business plans.
Students improve their business plans in groups based on the feedback, then present them in groups and receive feedback from instructors. The activity develops their public speaking skills and helps them select key points to condense their plan to an “executive summary”.
Students engage in group feedback and self-evaluation based on the collaboration skills criteria within the Group Member Evaluation tool. This helps to develop their critical thinking and self-regulatory skills, by seeing how they can improve and set goals for where to go from here based on their feedback.
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