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Concerns - How will there be PBL without a solid team effort? - Do students understand the difference between the small group goals vs. the large group goals? - Will the students understand how to find the strengths and styles of group members? - What happens to large group discussion where all voices are heard? Where is the argument? - Collaboration isn’t a natural characteristic to begin with. - What is the impact of facilitators outside of the classroom? - Online learning situations could become a more individual task and lead to argument and negotiation. - Student collaboration becomes viewed by students as not valuable, important, or helpful. - Time used for student collaboration ends up being taken away from content time. - Lack of equality in typical collaboration situations. - Pacing issues Plans to move forward - Front load team ideas - Form Teams - Develop each team members best skills - Create Team identities - Influence motivation - Build in team collaboration time - Build in team reflection time (group therapy) - Creating group reply threads in forums
 * __ Topic: Student-to-student collaboration is critical. How do we do this?? __**