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Collaborative Learning

Collaborative learning involves students working together to maximize their own and each other's learning. It represents a shift from traditional teacher-centered approaches and is based on the idea that learning is a social process that occurs through discussion. Effective collaborative learning requires rethinking course design to incorporate more student-centered approaches and complex roles for both teachers and students. While challenging to implement, collaborative learning has benefits such as increased student involvement, cooperation, and civic responsibility.

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Collaborative Learning

Collaborative learning involves students working together to maximize their own and each other's learning. It represents a shift from traditional teacher-centered approaches and is based on the idea that learning is a social process that occurs through discussion. Effective collaborative learning requires rethinking course design to incorporate more student-centered approaches and complex roles for both teachers and students. While challenging to implement, collaborative learning has benefits such as increased student involvement, cooperation, and civic responsibility.

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•What is collaborative learning?

•Assumptions about learning


•Goals for education
•Collaborative learning approaches
•Challenges and opportunities
“Collaborative learning” is an
umbrella term for a variety of
educational approaches involving
joint intellectual effort by
students, or students and
teachers together.
Collaborative learning represents a
significant shift away from the typical
teachercentered or lecture-centered milieu in
college classrooms
According to Gerlach, "Collaborative learning is
based on the idea that learning is a naturally
social act in which the participants talk among
themselves (Gerlach, 1994). It is through the
talk that learning occurs."
Learning is an active,
constructive process: To learn new
information, ideas or skills,
our students have to work actively with
them in purposeful ways.

Learning depends on rich


contexts: Recent research suggests
learning is fundamentally
influenced by the context and activity in
which it is embedded (Brown, Collins and
Duguid, 1989).
Learners are diverse:
students bring multiple
perspectives to the classroom-
diverse backgrounds, learning
styles, experiences, and
aspirations.
Learning is inherently social:
As Jeff Golub points out, “Collaborative learning
has as its main feature a structure that allows
for student talk: students are supposed to talk
with each other....and it is in this talking that
much of the learning occurs.” (Golub, 1988)
INVOLVEMENT

Calls to involve students more Cooperation and


actively in their learning are
teamwork
coming from virtually every
quarter of higher education
In collaborative endeavors, Civic Responsibility
(Astin, 1985; Bonwell and
students inevitably encounter
Eison, 1991; Kuh, 1990; Study
difference, and must grapple
Group on the Conditions of Collaborative learning encourages
with recognizing and working
Excellence in Higher Education, students to acquire an active voice in
with it. Cultivation of
1984) shaping their ideas and values and a
teamwork, communitybuilding,
and leadership skills are sensitive ear in hearing others.
legitimate and valuable Dialogue, deliberation, and consensus-
classroom goals, not just building out of differences are strong
extracurricular ones. threads in the fabric of collaborative
learning, and in civic life as well.
Cooperative Peer
Learning Teaching
Problem- Writing Groups
Defined as “the
centered With its roots in our
instructional use of The writing group
Instruction one-room schoolhouse
small groups so that approach, (known
tradition, the process
students Problem-centered variously as peer
of students teaching
work together to instruction, widely response groups, class
their fellow students is
maximize their own and used in professional criticism, or helping
probably the oldest form
each other’s learning” education, frequently circles) has
of collaborative
(Johnson et al. 1990), is built transformed
learning in American
cooperative learning is around collaborative thousands of college
education.
based on the social learning strategies. writing classes. Peer
interdependence writing involves
theories of Kurt Lewin students working in
and small groups at every
Morton Deutsch stage of the writing
(Deutsch, 1949; Lewin, process
1935).
Designing group work requires a
demanding yet important rethinking
Challenges to
of our syllabus, in
collaborative learning at
terms of course content and time
the classroom level are
allocation.
compounded by the
traditional structures
Collaborative learning goes to
and culture of the
the roots of long-held assumptions
academy, which continue
about teaching and learning.
to perpetuate the
Classroom roles change: both
teacher-centered,
teachers and students take on
transmission- of-
More complex roles and
information model of
responsibilities. (Finkel and
teaching and learning.
Monk, 1983; MacGregor, 1990 ).
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