ISSUES FROM THE CASE STUDIES
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1. Video Production (University of Canberra)
Professional film & television production involves teamwork. Collaborative and teamwork skills are realistic professional outcomes developed through group assignments.
MICHAEL SERGI: Film & television production universally, is teamwork. So when you leave university and you work in the film & television industry you are working in a team. It can be a small documentary crew of 2 or 3 people, or you could be working on a multi-million dollar Hollywood production that may have 2 or 3 hundred people.
JOSH BIRSE: To work in TV or film it's all about teamwork. I mean you've got your different crews that do different elements towards the project, so you need to be able to work... It's very rare that you would be working by yourself. I mean even the director has to work with other people to get his vision across so I think in those terms it's probably good for us.
2. New Media (University of Canberra)
Working in groups enables students to tackle productions that would be too large and complex for an individual assignment.
AIKO MINESHI: In my personal opinion I prefer group assignments because creating this mini-game is pretty hard. If you work alone it's pretty complicated. Lots of work to do. So it's logical that we have a group assignment for this.
3. Visual Communication (UTS)
At UTS group work is associated with the acquisition of specific graduate attributes. In this example an outwardly "dull" history topic is enlivened by a group approach and a combative debate.
DARRALL THOMPSON: The group leaning process is all about how we develop attributes in the students. Students often turn off when it comes to history learning. Often they are used to getting lectures at school, they don't have a lot of engagement with it. But in this context what we try and do is get them to see their team role playing as a good way of doing it; get them to do a lot of research on line and work together on line; and then finally they come into the debate. We've set it up in such a way that people that they're researching as a group have very opposing views about what design is. So on line and live the debate in the lecture theatre is very dynamic. The students really start learning and realy start identifying what they're good at, where they could improve, and they really start to enjoy group work.
4. Theatre Workshop (Uni of NSW)
Group work can develop a feeling of commitment to both the project and to members of the team. This commitment promotes personal insights and self-evaluation and can carry over to other courses and to professional life after university.
JULIA LANDRY: We were working in a group and also working in a million different individual pathways.
JACINTA KELLY: Every course is completely different. I thought that a lot of my best work came out of what we all did together.
RICHARD HOFFMAN: A lot of times I think in Uni classes you just do the assignments, maybe you don't even know the other classmates' names. Sometimes you wouldn't even bother to show up to a lecture because there's no real investment in it. Yes you're trying to get the marks for the grade at the end. Whereas in this course it was very much about being in the moment of the work and actually caring and even when you left the class you would still take some of those emotions and experiences back and it really integrated, at least for me personally, into my life outside of the university.
5. Medicine (University of NSW)
Teamwork is one of 8 defined graduate outcomes in medical education. Skills in teamwork are developed over the 6 years of the undergraduate curriculum.
CHRIS HUGHES: We have eight capabilities for the program which are like graduate outcomes, and Teamwork is one of them. And we see the development of proficiency in these capabilities as a program-wide concern. So we expect students at the end of the six years of the program to have developed satisfactorily in Teamwork or Self-Direction or Science or Patient Assessment, Communication, etc.
6. Advertising – Integrated Communication Campaigns (University of Canberra)
In the advertising field, the ability to function effectively as part of a group is an essential vocational skill.
MORGAN: It is good because our degree is based around teamwork. Like, Communications is a very team-based subject. But I think everyone cringes at the idea of teamwork because you're not just responsible for yourself, you're responsible for other people in your group, and they're also responsible for the outcome - your outcome, your final grade., which can be a bit of a worry at times.
KATHRYN: It gets better as the years go on. Once you get to third year you're expecting it to be in the module and I think it's really beneficial because it does prepare you for what 's coming next.
SUZANNE: In the professional industries you do work in teams all the time. So this is great in terms of preparing us for what we're going to be doing in our careers. An at this stage - I think I can probably speak for the others in saying that we're all pretty confident in terms of working with groups, working in groups and dealing with certain types of personalities effectively.
7. Advertising – Brand Building (University of Canberra)
RICHARD BUDDLE: I use the industry model as the main driver for this. I mean if we're to teach professionals professionally then what's really important for me is that they understand the dynamics of the real world. And so being able to think and strategize in a group is one of the high demand areas that we hear from both recruitment agencies and from employers.
PHILIP: I guess the advertising course, like every unit, is tailored to group work right from first year. There are 4-5 major group assignments every semester, so you get very used to working like this.
MICHAEL: It's definitely a lot more practical doing group work because ... I don't know just the way that our careers will end up being... You have to work with other people.
8. Communication Foundations (University of Canberra)
Collaborative skills are developed through group work throughout the undergraduate degree program.
KAREN MCPHERSON: There are multiple purposes for setting a group assignment. Some of them relate to the achievement of specific unit outcomes and others relate to the social needs of students as it's first semester, first year. And also to the achievement of graduate attributes. One of them is the ability to work in teams because that's how people often work and they need to be able to develop skills with managing conflict, negotiating work that is done and that sort of thing.