97 Orchestration of Learning 1997 AERC Proceedings Orchestration of learning style differences and other variables in an action learning experience. Research centered on 31 students who participated in a two-week International Action Learning Seminar in Salford, England. International participants were assigned to action learning sets on the basis of several variables.
Some action learning practitioners eschew pre-determination of set composition.
The same can be said of team determination in businesses and public organizations. Group assignments can be relatively random and haphazard. This can lead to a reinforcement of likeness and stifle creative properties. When given a choice of group to join, or assigned to a group at random, the mix of member characteristics can be excessively skewed in a given direction. In international groups it can be a case of persons of like nationality ending up in the same group, losing the opportunity for multicultural expression and interplay.