Increasing international and domestic student interaction through group work: A case study from the humanities

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 797-810

  Cruickshank, Ken ^a   Chen, Honglin ^b   Warren, Stan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

classroom strategies; group work; international students; student interaction; teaching and learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870909461     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2012.669748     Document Type: Article

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