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Collaborative Learning

This is the link to our group presentation - Collaborative Learning
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  1. MuntherJanuary 26, 2013 at 9:41 PM

    I have really enjoyed your presentation on collaborative learning. I believe the main element of CL is the social aspect and all other characteristic of CL evolve from it such as peer tuition, student-centered learning and group/team work. It was interesting to see in the video that the teacher planned her classwork to be more difficult that than the homework to force the students to ask each other and hence facilitates collaboration. Also, thanks to your presentation I am able to understand better the difference between collaborative and cooperative learning. It would appear than sometimes we are using cooperative learning and incorrectly thinking we are employing collaborative methods in teaching and learning.

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