Managing group projects in undergraduate computing.

Scott, Michael James; Alshaigy, Bedour; Siegel, Angela A.; Zarb, Mark

Abstract

This panel convenes four educators, each from different institutions and each with experience managing group projects. Their expertise spans topics including: peer assessment and peer evaluation; entrepreneurship; transdisciplinarity; internationalisation; inclusivity; social values; educational technology and tools; feedback and feed-forward; peer rating; free-riders; as well as blended learning; and post-pandemic online discourse. They reflect on the delight of seeing students collaborate to deliver meaningful projects as well as the challenges posed by disengaged students. They also explore a common theme of discordance inherent to teamwork and systems to support student communities.

Citation

SCOTT, M.J., ALSHAIGY, B., SIEGEL, A.A. and ZARB, M. 2023. Managing group projects in undergraduate computing. Panel presented at the 28th Annual conference on innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE 2023), 8-12 July 2023, Turku, Finland.

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: 28th Annual conference on innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE 2023)
• Conference Location: Turku, Finland
• Start Date: Jul 8, 2023
• End Date: Jul 12, 2023
• Deposit Date: Jul 5, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 5, 2023
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3587103.3594163
• Keywords: Computing students; Undergraduate students; Group-based assignments; Group projects
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1998468
• Additional Information: The extended abstract for this panel has been published with the following citation: SCOTT, M.J., ALSHAIGY, B., SIEGEL, A.A. and ZARB, M. 2023. Managing group projects in undergraduate computing. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual conference on innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE 2023), 8-12 July 2023, Turku, Finland. New York: ACM [online], volume 2, pages 597-598. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3587103.3594163