Abstract

Academic activities can be streamlined and structured as teams using scrum approaches. Outside of academia, researchers have reported the benefits of such a collaborative and team-focused approach, particularly in industry. This study investigates how to structure academic activities as teams and then apply scrum practices to run the teams to improve teaching and research in work-based higher learning. The study adopts an action research methodology. Data from interviews and surveys were collected and analyzed using thematic analysis and descriptive statistics. The findings revealed that agile and scrum practices should be formalized to improve teaching and research in work-based higher learning.

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