Effective and Engaging Teamwork

Course Description

This digital course called Effective and Engaging Teamwork will introduce basic information you need to help you create productive opportunities for student to student interactions and collaborations, consider ways to prevent and handle common concerns around teamwork, and fairly assess these interactions.

Course Learning Outcomes

By the end of this digital course, you will be able to:

• Define “teamwork” and determine whether and how teamwork can be implemented to achieve your course learning outcomes.
• Determine how to create, manage, and assess student teams.
• Identify how to use online tools to facilitate team collaboration and communication.

Content

1. What Is Teamwork?
2. Instructor Preparation for Teamwork
3. Forming
4. Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning

Expectations

This digital course consists of 4 lessons, which altogether will take approximately 45 minutes to complete. Additional resources or tips for further exploration are provided at the end of each lesson. Each lesson culminates in a knowledge check to confirm what you have learned and to enable you to move on to the next lesson.

Intended Audience

UMD faculty, staff, and graduate students

Digital Badge

By completing this course, you will earn your Effective and Engaging Teamwork micro-credential. To receive recognition for your efforts, simply explore each page and tackle all knowledge checks within this course.

This badge is an exciting step towards earning your Active Learning Practitioner meta-credential from the TLTC’s Teaching Academy.