Collaborative Learning

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Collaborative Learning
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Collaborative Learning

• Students learn best when they are actively
  involved in the process.
• Learn more of what is taught
• Retain it longer
• Have deeper knowledge of the content
• More satisfied with their learning

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Terms for teaching

• Cooperative learning
• Collaborative learning
• Learning communities
• Peer teaching/peer learning
• Team learning
• Study groups

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Strategies for Collaborative Work

• Plan for each stage of work
• Projects that lend themselves to group work
• Explain to students how groups are to work
• Give the skills to succeed in groups

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Tasks

• Require interdependence
• Assignments fit skills and abilities
• Fair division of labor
• Intergroup competition
• Group test taking