Learning in Teams: How to create conditions for effective collaboration

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Effective teamwork is crucial in the workplace and will be a vital part of your graduate experience. In many university courses, you will collaborate with unfamiliar peers on projects, presentations, and papers. Despite the benefits of collaborative learning in teams, it often proves frustrating and ineffective for many participants. Few groups excel at sharing diverse ideas, resolving differences, making collaborative decisions, or learning from errors. Disagreements can lead to…