The things you've described are there for the retards to dilute abysmal exams. Group work is boiled down to "one person does a typical assignment alone and the rest coast on reading their presentation". I've had professors divide a lecture hall class into four groups and the only graded non-test assignments be "group discussions". I'm a very odd case because I started college in the 00's, dropped out, worked in the real world, and came back to do a bachelor's in the '20s. Shit. Got. BAD. I rode the fucking short bus in middle school and I didn't learn anything new in my required math course for college. It was all review for me, and for most of the 17-18 year olds they were asking questions like it was their first time hearing it.

Edit: Example from this semester of how dumbed down and impossible-to-fail things are now. A professor explained her criterion for a grading homework and if you get half of it right you get a 100%. Every missed question beyond that is a -5 off the grade. So if you get 1/10 questions right you get a fucking 80. They are really trying to just push everyone through.

The things you've described are there for the retards to dilute abysmal exams. Group work is boiled down to "one person does a typical assignment alone and the rest coast on reading their presentation". I've had professors divide a lecture hall class into four groups and the only graded non-test assignments be "group discussions". I'm a very odd case because I started college in the 00's, dropped out, worked in the real world, and came back to do a bachelor's in the '20s. Shit. Got. BAD. I rode the fucking short bus in middle school and I didn't learn anything new in my required math course for college. It was all review for me, and for most of the 17-18 year olds they were asking questions like it was their first time hearing it.