FORCING DISRUPTION IN B-LEARNING WORKGROUPS

Sometimes, it may be desirable to promote the disruption of established workgroups in order to promote the students' ability to work with different persons, working conditions, and leadership styles. We describe the impact of different techniques to promote the disruption of workgroups in b-learning contexts. The results show that the groups tend to keep unchanged, even if they are not working properly and that a non-sense game and a technique of creation of groups based on common interests can provoke healthy disruptions in the existing groups, promote the creation of new groups without installing conflicts, and increase the students' motivation. The results of our study are useful for teachers and trainers who promote workgroups in their courses and are interested in improving their students' motivation with their workgroups and in helping the students work with different groups and develop behavioral skills.