Team-Based Collaboration in Higher Education Learning and Teaching: A Review of the Literature

✍ Scribed by Catherine Newell, Alan Bain

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 72
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Education
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines what collaboration means in practice, and the factors that enable effective team collaboration for learning and teaching in higher education. It explains how academics can work more collaboratively, and how universities can organise and govern themselves by means of collaboration. The book brings together current research and commentaries on collaboration in higher education to provide important guidance derived from a synthesis and evaluation of the existing empirical research and commentaries in the field.
The book will benefit all readers who are interested in making their own teams and higher education organisations more collaborative. It will help them plan collaborative innovations in their organisations, identify priorities for professional capacity building, and design collaborative organisational structures.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-viii
Introduction (Catherine Newell, Alan Bain)....Pages 1-7
Defining Collaboration and Previewing Success Factors for Effective Collaboration (Catherine Newell, Alan Bain)....Pages 9-27
Developing Individual Attitudes, Dispositions and Interpersonal Skills for Collaboration (Catherine Newell, Alan Bain)....Pages 29-34
Team-Based Structures, Protocols and Problem-Solving Skills for Effective Collaboration (Catherine Newell, Alan Bain)....Pages 35-41
Building Shared Mental Models (Catherine Newell, Alan Bain)....Pages 43-49
Leadership, Team Norms and Supports for Effective Collaboration (Catherine Newell, Alan Bain)....Pages 51-56
The Effects of Collaboration on Learning and Practice (Catherine Newell, Alan Bain)....Pages 57-63
Discussion and Conclusion (Catherine Newell, Alan Bain)....Pages 65-69

✦ Subjects

Education; Higher Education; Educational Policy and Politics; Administration, Organization and Leadership; Learning and Instruction