Teacher’s Handbook

Best practices for project-based learning

Teamwork tends to be a key learning goal and challenge in most group project courses. This site offers concrete tools, tips and examples to help you support student collaboration more effectively, without overloading your course.

Group project courses offer a unique opportunity to teach teamwork, but managing team dynamics and ensuring good collaboration can be demanding. Whether you’re teaching a project course yourself or coordinating a broader teaching team, this site is here to support you. The materials revolve around the most commonly asked questions by teachers related to project-based teaching, which can hopefully help and inspire you in your own teaching development.

The focus in the materials is in practical solutions that are aimed to help you make informed and manageable decisions in your teaching and course deisgn. Whether you're designing a new course or refining an existing one, these materials aim to make teamwork teaching feel less like an extra burden, and more like a meaningful part of your course.