This handbook is a comprehensive guide for anyone involved in groupwork, with advice and practical exercises to develop group learning skills for learners and tutors. Thoroughly updated with valuable new material throughout on group learning and collaborating online.

Principles of Group Dynamics. Studies of Group Behaviour. Approaches to Learning. Communicating in Groups. Aims and Purposes of Groups. Group Activities. The Role of Tutor and E-Moderator. Learning Groups in Context. Assessing and Evaluating with Groups

'This is a truly excellent book. With a solid theoretical underpinning, it is wide-ranging, accessible, practical and, above all, useful...Whatever your role, if you want to enable groups to function and learn well, read and use this book!' - Bob Rotheram, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK'What a great book! One of the all-time great writers on small group work joins forces with the queen of online learning. This book is readable, theoretically rigorous, practical, and excellently presented.' - Trish Greenhalgh, University College London, UK'The book progresses well from the theoretical underpinning of group behaviour to assessment within groups and pratcial check lists for leaders. The online learning points are well integrated and not viewed as add-ons. In its general framework, the book is extremely coherent with excellent use of bullet points, diagrams, tables and shading to encourage clarity of thought.' - British Journal of Educational Technology