2.5 Team training
The team training sessions were based on (Rasmussen et al., 2011). Briefly each session took around 30 minutes and were spread out at key times through semester. The first activity happened in week 2 when the students had just been allocated to a group and was an icebreaker, focused on expectations of team members, personality types and role/task allocation. Session 2 was based around negotiation and problem solving and used a negotiation activity. The third session had the students reflect on their behaviour in the team and that of the team as a whole (in-line with the expectations discussed in Session 1). As this third session occurred one week after moving to online teaching, the session was also used to think ahead about plans or behaviours that may need to change to overcome collaborating in isolation. The final session occurred in the last class before submission (via video call during lockdown) and had the students negotiate contributions to the final documentary product. Each session was available to the students from week 2 in their Microsoft Team environment as a PDF and with the text copied into the Collaboration Space in the Class Notebooks so they could answer questions and make notes. The student and teacher guidelines are available at https://www.arlab.co.uk/education-research.html (Supplementary Material 3). For a visual representation of the semester plan and when interruptions occurred, please see Figure 4.