ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ingredients necessary for effective ‘collaboration’. The scenario in this chapter is a group work activity based on an allied-health training course. The pedagogy around how to teach collaboration is an area where there is little guidance in existing educational literature. Although often mentioned as an aim or learning outcome in course materials, explicit methods of teaching collaboration as a skill is rare; often it is presumed to be a by-product of other activities. It is easy to define collaboration, but it is much harder to achieve; given different people are motivated differently, behave differently, have different personalities and motivations or styles of working. Teaching collaboration to students in higher education settings has been found to be beneficial to students as it helps in future work practice. However, it remains difficult to teach due to silos and structural impediments in university settings and interruption it is perceived to cause to the status quo of teaching in universities.
