Tons!!!
I've worked in groups more than I ever thought possible. I didn't think that I would enjoy group work, but I really do! It's amazing how much more you can get done with a group. Some of my most impressive work was always group work because I didn't do it by myself. I find that I'm also much more motivated to finish projects in a timely manner when working in a group. I didn't really think too much about it until I recently had a choice to work on a project with a group or independently. In the future, I would definitely encourage students given the same to choose to work on the project in a group. It does take more work to communicate and coordinate, but especially with recent advances in technology, it's not actually that hard, and you have the opportunity to be so much more productive.
Really if you delegate specific pieces to different members of the group, you end up being responsible for managing your own part. Then it's just making sure that you're all on the same page and bringing it together cohesively.
So there you go! Teamwork, communication, online platforms for teamwork, coordinating and managing projects. Obviously there's even more than that, but I never imagined that I would be the kind of student to choose a group project over an independent project, so that's something that really sticks with me about this semester.
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