The Community for Learning & Innovation (CLI) gives lecturers from Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) the opportunity to apply for a fellowship. With this fellowship, they research educational innovation, or carry out an educational project.
On this page you can read more about the Tim Benning's CLI Fellowship about reducing free-riding. He created a checklist to support the design of group projects.
Suppose that you want to create a group project that helps to reduce free-riding. Where do you start? In this project, Tim developed a checklist that course coordinators can use to reduce free-riding in the group projects of their courses. Three important criteria are taken into account: (1) practicability (i.e. current rules and common practice at the EUR), (2) the likelihood of reduced free-riding, and (3) the expected acceptance by students.
To complete this checklist, Tim had interviews with programme/course coordinators, performed a literature review on methods that can help to reduce free-riding, and investigated students’ preferences for different group project characteristics by means of a discrete choice experiment. Course coordinators can use the checklist to create group projects that help to reduce free-riding and satisfy students’ preferences.
The research has been published in the academic journals Active Learning in Higher Education and Journal of Marketing Education.
Deliverables
Check out the final products of the fellowship below.
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Tim Benning is an economist with a MSc degree (2006) and PhD degree (2011) in Marketing from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a first grade teaching degree from VU University Amsterdam (2017). He has research and teaching experience in the areas of Business Economics (Marketing), Health Economics and education. In his previous job he was coordinator of Academic Skills and lecturer (of the Tutor Academy) at the Department of Applied Economics of Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is currently an assistant professor at the department of Health Systems and Insurance at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management. As a CLI Fellow, Tim investigated how free-riding can be reduced.
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