I’m sure that was your end goal, but when someone assigns a collaborative project, it’s usually to teach students how to collaborate, while forgetting that just

I’m sure that was your end goal, but when someone assigns a collaborative project, it’s usually to teach students how to collaborate, while forgetting that just forcing a group to do the same task together is not the same thing as collaborating. It is from this base that problems emerge, IMO. Kind of like “synergy”, which is a real thing, but hard to define and difficult to artificially achieve.