Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo & Conference

Collaborate to Clarify - How does this relate to online learning?

Two of the largest objections to online learning is students isolation and beliefs that students do not learn to communicate or work with others. iNACOL online learning standards highlight the need for this in their standards with: “ The course provides opportunities for appropriate instructor-student and student-student interaction to foster mastery and application of the material and a plan for monitoring that interaction.”

How can we provide opportunities to collaborate online AND involve students in deeper learning activities?

Tags: collaboration, learning, online

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Deanna Mayers on February 13, 2012 at 10:42am

Cube It Activity

Do this first:

Answer all the questions for yourself in a rough draft form

Do this next:

Roll the virtual die - http://www.random.org/dice/ - Choose 1 - roll the die
Copy the question that corresponds to your die roll
Click the reply button, paste question and answer it in your own words

1. What is collaboration?

2. What are the characteristics of collaboration?

3. How can you build a collaborative project?

4. Does collaboration help students learn or increase understanding?

5. What twist could you add to a collaborative project to make it more effective?

6. If you could not use collaboration in your class at all, what other strategy would you choose to build understanding?

Do this last:

Review the answer to the 6 questions, how do they compare with your answers?