13. Group organisation
As an eTutor, you are responsible for group formation and maintenance. You may build groups in a face-to-face session, virtually or even let learners create interest-based groups, but you are still responsible for the group maintenance. In all cases, you have to ensure a healthy group composition and synergistic exchange in the group. To create the feeling of belonging in a group, you will need to address a group as a group and host an informal chart in which group members get to know each other.
As soon as group members have known each other well, you may leave it to them to organise themselves on completing the assignment. Learners who are members of the same group may share responsibilities between themselves and appoint the group leader. As an eTutor, you are still responsible to support the group leader and intervene in motivating less enthusiastic learners. You may also increase group identity by triggering competition between groups in completing high quality assignment at the soonest.