1. Collaborative Learning

2. 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

3. Terms for teaching Cooperative learning Collaborative learning
Learning communities
Peer teaching/peer learning
Team learning
Study groups

4. 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

5. Tasks Require interdependence Assignments fit skills and abilities
Fair division of labor
Intergroup ‘competition’
Group test taking