ABSTRACT
Students sometimes seem incapable of making good use of the opportunities offered by seminars to discuss course material in a group and get feedback on their ideas from tutors and fellow students. But if one asks students what went wrong in a particular seminar they can usually identify the main problems very readily, including those which are their own responsibility. This chapter presents an exercise that makes use of students' own experience and awareness to help them to draw up guidelines and action plans for learning from seminars. Groups who are given the opportunity to discuss such issues are often willing to agree on a group agreement among themselves which they are subsequently eager to maintain. This raises standards within the group and maximises learning. The chapter presents another exercise that is designed to help students to devise group agreements. It is followed by an example of an actual group agreement.
