Author: Daniel Sanford

This book is a valuable and comprehensive resource to use as part of peer tutor training or as background reading for the trainer. Topics covered range from the science of learning to exploring the role and theoretical foundations of peer tutoring and learning centers.

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Author: Miro

Miro is a fast, free, and simple-to-use online whiteboard built to help you collaborate with others any time, anywhere.

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Author: Toggl

This is a project management tool, and can be helpful for group work.

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Author: TRSM Academic Success Centre

Six tips for group work success.

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Author: Barbara Oakley

This article provides a solid base in the literature about effective teamwork. The appendix “Coping with hitchhikers and couch potatoes on teams” (pp. 32-34) is a pithy, practical 3-page guide for students about how to address potentially challenging teammates’ behaviours.

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Author: Mural

Mural connects teams on digital whiteboards with collaborative features. There are many templates for students like to-do lists, study sheets, and collaborative notetaking documents.

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Author: York University

This guide offers you an introductory video and three modules to help you engage in successful group work. Each module, shown below, contains a short video and a section titled Tips, Tools & Templates offering practical tips and downloadable checklists, activities, templates and more to help you engage in effective group work as part of coursework in a university context.

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Author: Priya Parker

A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at work, at school, at home and beyond. In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive–which they don’t have to be.

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Author: Toggl

This is a project management tool that can be helpful for group work.

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