Jan 02
Traditionally, courses like this have groups created to do projects (which has weightage of 15 to 30%), but all the intermediate work is done by individual resources.
One idea I have (has some roots into how York University in Canada conducts its MBA program) is to put students into groups of 4-6 people by 2nd or 3rd lecture (total 28 lectures). These will be called ‘companies’ - and rest of the semester, everything they do, even assignments and class participation, will be team driven. They may even be forced to sit together in 1 row each. And ofcourse the project will be company-based.
Question:
- should the groups be made by students, or should I randomly create groups?
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- Random: only concern is technical ability within each group. groups may end up with everyone wanting to be business development manager
- Student driven: concern of ’same type of people’ in a given group. this is what I’ve seen in past semesters and also in my own student life. We choose people we are already comfortable with as our group mates, which hinders real life scenarios where you are thrown into an unknown team of employees.
What do you think?
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