Creating effective student groups: an introduction to groupformation.org

  • Authors:
  • Tyson R. Henry

  • Affiliations:
  • California State University, Chico, Chico, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Success in the computing industry often depends on an individual's ability to be a productive member of an effective study group or project team. In order to prepare students for successful careers, computer science curriculum often includes group projects. This paper discusses the challenges of forming effective student groups, discusses existing software for forming groups, and introduces groupformation.org, a new free and open source group formation service.