Developing Teamwork Skills Through Simultaneous Group Project Courses

Tuomo Eloranta

doi:10.21427/26XZ-SC27

Developing Teamwork Skills Through Simultaneous Group Project Courses

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The popularity of project-based learning (PBL) has led to a situation where engineering students take several group project courses at the same time. From a student perspective, this can generate considerable issues. Previous research has indicated that already single PBL courses can be challenging, especially time and task management-wise and intuitively overlapping PBL courses compound this complexity. As existing literature on this topic is relatively sparse, the goal of the present study is to examine what kind of student challenges simultaneous PBL courses generate, how students navigate those and what kind of additional learning can it foster. The results should help PBL course teachers to consider the impact of overlapping PBL courses from a student perspective and provide better support for them.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Book of Proceedings for the 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education
Editors	Ger Reilly, Mike Murphy, Balazs Vince Nagy, Hannu-Matti Jarvinen
Publisher	Société européenne pour la formation des ingénieurs
Pages	377-387
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	978-2-87352-026-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21427/26XZ-SC27
Publication status	Published - 2023
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education - TU Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Duration: 10 Sept 2023 → 14 Sept 2023 Conference number: 51 https://www.sefi2023.eu https://www.sefi2023.eu/

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Conference	Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education
Abbreviated title	SEFI
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	10/09/2023 → 14/09/2023
Internet address	https://www.sefi2023.eu https://www.sefi2023.eu/

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teamwork
multiple team membership
project-based learning

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Eloranta, T 2023, Developing Teamwork Skills Through Simultaneous Group Project Courses. in G Reilly, M Murphy, BV Nagy & H-M Jarvinen (eds), Book of Proceedings for the 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education. Société européenne pour la formation des ingénieurs, pp. 377-387, Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, Dublin, Ireland, 10/09/2023. https://doi.org/10.21427/26XZ-SC27

Developing Teamwork Skills Through Simultaneous Group Project Courses. / Eloranta, Tuomo.
Book of Proceedings for the 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education. ed. / Ger Reilly; Mike Murphy; Balazs Vince Nagy; Hannu-Matti Jarvinen. Société européenne pour la formation des ingénieurs, 2023. p. 377-387.

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