• Firstly, the course aims at setting the frame for supporting successful learning in the LIO group, developing and implementing a culture of collaboration that enables individual and group learning.
• Secondly, experiencing and learning about group properties and dynamics as well as team work in order to be able to adequately design working contexts that enable and support team development and performance.
  
  

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course/seminar, students will be able to

• LO1: Setting the frame (linking context to process): a) understand the LIO study program and the core values it stands for; b) understand the impact of the overall context/frame on group processes.
• LO2: Individual reflection and learning (linking individual and task): a) identify biases, question assumptions, evaluate factors that influence behavior, b) reflect on one's goals, beliefs, assumptions, and behaviors and understand how these relate to task performance and goal attainment.
• LO3: Team development (linking group and individual): a) experience and understand group dynamics and team development; b) be able to link the individual and group aspects by learning about group dynamics and understanding how they can hinder diversity and individual development; know how to facilitate encounters, embrace diversity and achieve common goals.
• LO4: Facilitate collaboration (linking task and group): a) understand different group characteristics, in particular roles, aspects of successful group work and team performance; b) can design a framework for collaboration.
• LO5: Overall: On the basis of the above learning outcomes, students will be able to proactively contribute to group work, design and create working contexts that support effective group work, lead teams and facilitate team development and performance.

• Individual assignments:
  I1: Presence in class is mandatory (50%)
  I2: Individual reflection (10%)
  
• Group assignments:
  G1: Group task 1: Refined rules / values of collaboration – whole group (10%)
  G2: Group task 2: Group reflection report – smaller sub-groups (30%, can be divided among group members based on self-defined evaluation criteria)
  

Assessment criteria:

• Individual assingments:
  I1: Active participation, proactive engagement in group works
  I2: Submitting task in time
  
• Group assignments:
  G1: Quality of group coordination and decision making – submitting one overall document, refinement of values based on literature
  G2: Qualitity of literature search, use of AI-Tools, quality of reflection on AI-produced results, quality of report based on a clear line of argumentation, appropriate lessons learned for practical application, appropriate formatting style
  

Reflection of learning outcomes in the assessment and teaching methods:

• LO1: based on the overall teaching philosophy and methods of the course, reflected in the quality of discussions and their contributions in class (I1) and the outcome of their collaboration (G1, G2).
• LO2: esp. reflected in the quality of discussions and their contributions in class (I1) and their individually drawn implications (I2).
• LO3: reflected in the quality of discussions and their contributions in class (I1), esp. through the outcomes of their collaboration and the quality of the implications drawn from their analysis and reflections (G1, G2).
• LO4: esp. through the outcome of their overall group work (G1)
• LO5: esp. through the outcomes of their collaboration (G1) and the quality of the implications drawn from their reflection reports (G2).