Facilitating Learning in Small Groups

This article follows on from the author's previous one on 'Learning in small groups' where (among other things) he started to explore what students actually do in small group learning contexts linking their actions to five factors underpinning successful learning and thinking about which student actions are most likely to be accompanied by high learning payoff. In the present article the discussion is extended to what facilitators can do to maximise the benefits that students can derive from learning in small groups.