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What Grinds Our Gears: Breakout rooms are the worst way to learn

by Marco Ovies, Editor-in-Chief  Full disclosure: I think group work and discussions are the biggest waste of time.  Breakout rooms are especially the worst. I thought that after a semester or two of online trials professors would have started to realize that. But nope, here I am being forced into a group of complete strangers to discuss a book none of us have even read, in a time period none of us have ever studied. Why am I paying premium prices for this nonsense when instead I can just go to GradeSaver or SparkNotes and get a more in-depth summary…

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