Archive for the ‘Collaborative Learning’ Category

Collaborative Editing Online: Available Tools

It is not only wikis and blogs that you can use collaboratively online. Now it is possible to create graphs and charts together, as well as regular text documents and tables. What you Need Tool to Adopt a graph or a chart Gliffy an online word processor and a spreadsheet application in one; you need […]

Posted on October 31, 2008 at 12:18 pm by Stacey · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Collaborative Learning, Web 2.0 Tools

Collaborative Learning Online: Principles and Guidelines

Quintessentially, in order for a collaborative task to succeed it is necessary to provide for the following: 1. The students in a group must perceive that they “sink or swim” together, that each member is responsible to and dependent on all the others, and that one cannot succeed unless everyone in the group succeeds. (I wonder […]

Posted on October 31, 2008 at 11:20 am by Stacey · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Collaborative Learning

Sample Collaborative Learning Tasks & Activities: Guided Reciprocal Peer Questioning

Guided Reciprocal Peer Questioning The goal of this activity is to generate discussion among student groups about a specific topic or content area. Faculty conducts a brief (10-15 minutes) lecture on a topic or content area. Faculty may assign a reading or written assignment as well. Instructor then gives the students a set of generic […]

Posted on October 31, 2008 at 11:16 am by Stacey · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Collaborative Learning

Types of Groups and Groupwork

GROUPWORK Various names have been given to this form of teaching, and there are some distinctions among these: cooperative learning, collaborative learning, collective learning, learning communities, peer teaching, peer learning, reciprocal learning, team learning, study circles, study groups, and work groups. But all in all, there are three general types of group work: informal learning […]

Posted on October 31, 2008 at 10:59 am by Stacey · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Collaborative Learning, groupwork

Collaborative Learning Techniques

That’s the title of the book by Barkley, Cross and Major, a copy of which I purchased a few months ago. The authors distinguish ca. 30 Collaborative Learning Techniques, or CoLTS for short, and divide them into five categories.  Here is a nice list of them all to help jog your (and my) memory later, […]

Posted on October 30, 2008 at 8:53 pm by Stacey · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Collaborative Learning