Collaborative Learning General Resource - Review and consider possibilities
Last updated on 29/04/2020
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Description
Collaborative learning is an educational approach that involves two or more people learning or attempting to learn something together, allowing them to capitalise on one another's resources and skills.
Overview
Every group is diverse in its makeup. Most will have a mix of outspoken students and quiet students.
Integrating some of the following strategies into your teaching program will encourage everyone to become involved, and can be a valuable source of motivation for students.
- Peer Modelling
- Timed Pairs
- The Scavenger Hunt
- Debates
- Learning Groups
- Turned On, Turned In
- Pass the Problem
- Forming Groups Creatively
Implement
Your Learning and Teaching Consultant can suggest ways of integrating collaborative learning strategies into your teaching practice.
Support Resources
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Quick start guide to flipping your classroom with peer instruction
Explains Eric Mazur's peer instruction technique
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Group Work: Using cooperative learning groups effectively
Brame, C & Biel, R
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Helping students to reflect on their group work
UNSW (2017)
Contributed by
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Learning Futures
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Preferred Citation
(2020). Collaborative Learning. Retrieved from https://app.secure.griffith.edu.au/exlnt/entry/3867/view