UNIVERSITIES HAVE CONCENTRATED FOR FAR TOO LONG ON INDEPENDENT LEARNING AND HAVE NEGLECTED THE VALUE OF
... Throughout this piece of work I will be discussing group work and independent learning as the main subject areas. ... To begin with I am going to look at ‘group learning’. The one fundamental purpose of group work learning is to work with the other members of the group in competing a task and/or to help with individuals complete their own personal assignment. ‘Each group operates as a team and team mates are responsible for their own learning as well that of their team mates…everyone has a task and is actively involved…students must feel that they need each other in order to carry out the group task. ... It clearly states the unwritten rules of group learning. ... One reason why universities may have neglected group learning has maybe so0mething to do with the relaxed atmosphere at university. ... Working in a group helps you broaden everyone’s way of thought and learning by listening to others point of view. Groups can be a lot more productive and efficient than individual learning as there are more of you! When you are in a group with good people your motivation for learning and giving input helps you and helps productivity within the group. ... ‘Independent learning is that learning in which the learner, in conjunction with relevant others, can make the decisions necessary to meet the learners own learning needs’ (Kesten 1987) Independent learning offers different outlooks on learning to group work.