COLLABORATIVE AND ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

How might collaborative learning be effectively integrated into the online learning environment for positive student learning to be achieved?

How might collaborative learning be effectively integrated into the online learning environment for positive student learning to be achieved?

Introduction

Collaborative learning is an interactive group knowledge-building process. The term collaboration derives from the concept of co-laboring, whereby people work jointly (especially to create physical, social, cultural, or intellectual artifacts). In educational usage, collaborative learning refers to the process whereby learners work together to build knowledge by formulating their ideas into words and then developing these ideas/concepts as they react to other students' responses (positive, negative, questioning, elaborating, etc.) to their formulations. There is ultimately a level of convergence, either of agreement (intellectual or co-production, as in an artistic output, a treatise, or a scientific report or theory) or in agreeing to disagree. Bruffee describes the process of cooperative learning in the classroom: "(1) local consensus group work, (2) to all the plenary meeting of the consensus discussion, and (3) to compare the knowledge of a larger consensus of all sectors of society consensus ", Bruffee country, class discussion, open learning task in focus.: One aim is to help students ... to work together, not further help on behalf of members of the social discourse of teachers, teacher. The second purpose is to guide students to be "assimilated", "right answer", but through a number of established collaboration, community knowledge, basic knowledge of the problem, is not. Success criteria, whether found or build their own, and tools they need to solve the problem of eccentricity, and students make their own reasonable application of the mission. (Turtle, 1995)

Collaborative learning and knowledge have been the late 20th century and part of the 21st century, education and the major principles of electricity, in the e-learning and education, in a network of communication and customer satisfaction and completion rates alarming rate, the result of a high percentage of online education programs and plan to use chlorine. However, the modern concept of cooperative learning began in the early 20th century roots.

Online Learning Collaboration and its Effectiveness

A community of online learners is often course online distance learning and formal guidelines from the National University Professor Xiang Bushing distribution in place. For more people in online activities, Internet access and more in daily life to participate, For example, in 2001, found the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 5111 that millions of Americans, which has about 5.5 million people have taken online courses online college credit.

But online courses, students will not necessarily with the company, the interaction between the students requires students to build relationships, to go over the information. Students must follow, and in every other respect, they will have the feeling with other human goals. Although this will happen in an online course (where students are members of the community feeling within the class A), it is also available in an online degree or members of the University occur ...