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Collaborativ Learnig
Question | Answer |
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What is collavorative Learning? | Collaborative learning is based on the view that knowledge is a social construct. |
What is the impact of collaborative learning or group work? | Research shows that educational experiences that are active, social, contextual, engaging, and student-owned lead to deeper learning |
What are some examples of collaborative learning or group work activities? | Stump your partner Think-pair-share/ Write-pair-share Catch-up Fishbowl debate |
How can you design group work assignments? | First, think about the course learning outcomes and how group work might address them. |
What can the students do? | Choose assignment topics or tasks that are related to the real world, and can be connected to students’ lives. |
How will groups be formed? | Allowing students to form their own groups will likely result in uneven groupings. |
How can you manage group work? | Managing shorter in-class collaborative learning activities |
How can you evaluate group work? | Student group work can result in the production of: wikis proposals reports of case studies in-class or video presentations posters |
What are some general strategies to keep in mind when incorporating group work? | Introduce group work early in the semester to set clear student expectations. Plan for each stage of group work. Carefully explain to your students how groups will operate and how students will be graded. |
What technology might assist the group work? | If technology use is required (e.g. wikis), you will need to incorporate learning activities around the use of the technology. |