Facilitating collaborations between home and international students; different perspectives of engagement associated with having responsibilities in a group environment

Simon A. Fairfax, Subhrajyoti Saha

Abstract


This case study reports on students’ responses to a newly designed group project used in a second-year undergraduate module at the University of Liverpool. The goals of the group project were to improve student engagement in the module and facilitate a collaboration between home and international students to develop a broader sense of student community within the department of mathematics. The extent to which these goals were achieved are explored in detail.


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student community; student engagement; belonging; internationalisation

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21100/msor.v22i3.1470

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