Online Assessments and Collaboration
Collaboration has always been an important thing in education and the workplace. Sometimes you are in teams and have to work together towards a common goal while other times you are working alone but need to help someone else or get help yourself. It is always important to never be afraid to seek help when needed.
It can be hard to work in groups in the first place but becomes even more difficult online because you are not face to face with the person and can't tell what they are doing. It can be hard to all be together aat the same time since there isn't a set class time and it also becomes a bit more complicated to try and meet to share work. Things have become easier over the years and businesses have been working together with people from all over the world for years now.
Some of the issues we run into with all collaboration assignments are that we feel like someone else isn't pulling their weight. As we learned in our learning sources this week it is important when working as a team that everyone has their own roles to help complete the bigger goal/objective. Also to go along with that it is a very good idea to create a list of duties for each role. Never assume someone knows what they are suppose to do if they were never told.
Whether the jobs pertaining to each role are decided in advance by the leader/instructor or are decided within the team depends on the situation. The great part about deciding on specifi duties for each person is that it gives us something to evaluate performance on. All we have to do is see if the people completed the jobs they were suppose to and how well.
This week we are going to share our experiences that we have had working with teams, both successfully and not. We will discuss ways that we could have better dealt with the situation and suggestion to help make sure it doesn't happen again.
By Tuesday
Create an initial post where you tell us about a positive experience you had working on a group project where the people you worked with were never in the same place to work with easily. What made the experience so positive or the work run so smoothly.
Next tell us a time where you had a bad experience and why you feel it went so wrong. Also give some tips on how the experience could have been approved either by the instructor/leader or the worker/student.
Be sure to reference this weeks learning resources.
By Friday
Read and respond to at least 2 peoples posts by either; expanding on something they have said, explaining why you disagree with something they said, share an insight you got from reading their post, or by asking clarifying questions.
By Sunday
Comment on all of the replies you received both on your initial post and the responses you gave to others.
Check back daily to reply to any comments you have received and to jump into any conversations you feel like to make conversations flow.
Click below for a copy of the grading rubric:
Rubric
