What is Collaborative Learning

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A situation in which two or more people actively interact to learn. Learn more in: Constructing Community in Higher Education Regardless of Proximity: Re-Imagining the Teacher Education Experience within Social Networking Technology

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This term is used to refer to students working on a computer-based learning program that requires them to collaborate by, for example, taking different roles, operating different controls, etc. Learn more in: Leading Across Generations: Issues for Higher Education Administrators

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An instruction method in which two or more people learn or attempt to learn something by working together in small groups. The learners are responsible for one another's learning as well as their own. Learn more in: Online Teaching: Applying Distance Learning Principles to MOOCs

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Learning based on a collaborative information and experience exchange, which results in knowledge creation based upon the scaffolding offered by peers. Learn more in: Exploring Future Seamless Learning Research Strands for Massive Open Online Courses

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A group of individuals working together for a common result such as project teams, problem based learning, group case analysis, simulations or games, peer mentoring, collaborative scientific research, and collaborative discussion groups. Learn more in: Creating Collaboration in Global Online Learning: Case Studies

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Acquisition of competences together with others. Learn more in: Translation Competence: Research Data in Multilateral and Interprofessional Collaborative Learning

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An active learning strategy where the students solve problems in groups and build social skills as well as theoretical knowledge. Learn more in: Integrating Industry Research in Pedagogical Practice: A Case of Teaching Microbial Corrosion in Wet Tropics

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The process of learning through interacting and collaborating with other people who have different ideas, perspectives, and knowledge levels. Learn more in: An Online Course Design for Inservice Teacher Professional Development in a Digital Age: The Effectiveness of the Double-Layered CoP Model

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Collaborative learning enables one to learn more effectively than when learning alone. It is also an effective way to understand the diversity of people and cultures through instinct. Learn more in: Integration of Communication in a Game to Reflect and Discuss Dietary Habits among School Aged Children

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It can serve as an effective framework to create a social environment where learners practice regulating their cognition and construct knowledge by interacting with their peers. Learn more in: Exploring the Development of Pre-Service Teachers' ICT-TPACK using a Cognitive Stimulation Tool

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Learning setup in which peers or groups learn together or are engaged to solve intellectual problems together. Learn more in: Motivational Active Learning in Blended and Virtual Learning Scenarios: Engaging Students in Digital Learning

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Teaching technique in which a group of students work on completing a task. Learn more in: The Effect of Using Mobile Devices on Students' Performance in Writing

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“Is essentially a social activity, that meaning is constructed through communication, collaborative activity, and interactions with others” ( Swan, 2005 , p. 5). Learn more in: Developing Teaching Presence in Online Learning Through Shared Stakeholder Responsibility

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The type of learning experiences or learning strategies that allow learners to create knowledge and meaning in a form of social construct. Learn more in: Understanding the Potentials of Social Media in Collaborative Learning

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Collaborative learning is the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes as a result of group interactions. Learn more in: The Integration of Educational Technology for Classroom-Based Formative Assessment to Empower Teaching and Learning

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Encourages group work, task resolution, questioning and achievement of objectives without competitiveness. The objectives, successes and failures of the participants are linked; they should work in a cooperative way, thereby sharing the work. Everyone learns from others. Learn more in: Flipped Teaching: A Useful Method for Cloud-Based GIScience Learning

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An educational approach to teaching and learning that involves students working together to complete a task or to solve a problem. Learn more in: Multi-User Virtual Environments for Physical Education and Sport Training

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This term is used to refer to students working on a computer-based learning program that requires them to collaborate by, for example, taking different roles, operating different controls, etc. Learn more in: Help Me Understand: Effectively Communicating Across Generations

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It refers to a situation in which a group of students learn together and have an active role in creating and sharing knowledge. Learn more in: Learner Perception of Using Case Study Method as a Teaching Method in Higher Education

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Learning situation in which a group of learners work together on a task, where each learner’s input is critical to the learning of the others in the group. Learn more in: Collaborative Learning in a Contribution-Oriented Pedagogy

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A variety of instructional approaches that involve shared intellectual efforts by peers and/or experts. Collaborative learning generates dialog and interaction among peers or communities of peers and experts for the purpose of constructing collective knowledge or shared understanding about a concept, case, or problem. Peers work in groups of two or more to search for a mutual understanding, solution, or meaning and to create a product based on their shared learning experience. Learn more in: Implementing Collaborative Problem-Based Learning with Web 2.0

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The process in which individuals negotiate and generate meaning and solutions to problems through shared understanding. Learn more in: Constructivism as the Driver of 21st Century Online Distance Education

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Type of group learning, in which members of the group build a new shared knowledge on the basis of each others views and resources to achieve an understanding or knowledge that no one alone could have achieved. Learn more in: Learning from Social Collaboration: A Paradigm Shift in Evaluating Game-Based Learning

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Knowledge is co-constructed and shared among groups of learners as they work together on tasks such as solving a problem or creating a product ( Brindley et al., 2009 ). Learn more in: Strategies for Online Course Development to Promote Student Success

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This type of learning has been called by various names: cooperative learning, collective learning, learning communities, peer teaching, peer learning, or team learning, in common is that they all incorporate group work. Collaboration is more than co-operation. Collaboration entails the whole process of learning. This may include students teaching one another, students teaching the teacher, and of course the teacher teaching the students, too. More importantly, it means that students are responsible for one another's learning as well as their own and that reaching the goal implies that students have helped each other to understand and learn. Learn more in: E-Portfolios as Tools for Collaborative Learning on Digital Platforms

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The cooperative arrangement in which learners of different abilities and interests work jointly in small groups to complete a project or solve a problem. Learn more in: The Roles of E-Learning, Organizational Learning, and Knowledge Management in the Learning Organizations

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A way of learning in which students at various performance levels work together in small groups towards a common goal. Reaching this goal is a joint endeavour and all group members are responsible for their own performance and that of others. Learn more in: Developing Key Competences for Life-Long Learning through Virtual Collaboration: Teaching ICT in English as a Medium of Instruction

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Collaborative learning, also known as cooperative learning, is an instructional strategy that arranges small groups of students to work together to complete an academic assignment and through sharing and learning from one another accomplish a learning goal. Learn more in: Teacher Preparation Programs and Learner-Centered, Technology-Integrated Instruction

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The process in which individuals negotiate and generate meaning and solutions to problems through shared understanding. Learn more in: Online Learning Propelled by Constructivism

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A method of learning that involves individuals working towards a shared goal in unison, to achieve a product that could not be achieved alone. Learn more in: Socially Shared Metacognition Among Undergraduate Students During an Online Geology Course

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An educational approach to teaching and learning that focuses on groups of students working together to solve a problem, complete a task, and/or create a product. Learn more in: Virtual Learning: A Study of Virtual Reality for Distance Education

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It is an educational approach in which two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together. It can occur peer-to-peer or in larger groups. Discussion forums, blogs, or wikis can be used for this. Learn more in: Tools for E-Assessment Techniques in Education: A Review

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Groups of learners working together with instructors towards a common goal which may include creating a product, solving a problem, or performing a task. Learn more in: Re-Educating the Educators: Collaborative 3D Printing Education

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An instructional strategy in which students work together in small groups with minimal guidance from the instructor in order to achieve an outcome or goal which can only be achieved collectively and interdependently. Learn more in: Assessing Collaborative Learning

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Learning is integrated in the life of communities that share values, beliefs, languages, and ways of doing things. What holds the learners together is a common sense of purpose and a real need to know what the other knows. The essence is the underlying process of shared creation involving two or more individuals interacting to create shared understanding where none could have existed on its own. Learn more in: Conceiving a Learning Organization Model in Online Education

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Two or more individuals work together to achieve a common learning goal. Learn more in: Online Collaborative Learning and Leadership Development

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An instruction method in which students work in groups toward a common academic goal. Learn more in: Shifting Perceptions within Online Problem-Based Learning

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Groups of students work together in searching for understanding, meaning or solutions or in creating a product. Learn more in: E-Collaboration Technologies Impact on Learning

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Learning that occurs through the exchange of knowledge among learners. Learn more in: Online Nurse Education

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Research has widely deepened the concept of collaborative learning. The expression “collaborative learning” can be defined broadly as an instruction method in which learners work together in small groups towards a common goal. It means that students are responsible for their own learning as well as that of the others. Thus, it promotes peer-learning and tutoring. Learn more in: E-Learning Methodological Models and Typologies

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Research has widely deepened the concept of collaborative learning. The expression “collaborative learning” can be defined broadly as an instruction method in which learners work together in small groups towards a common goal. It means that students are responsible for their own learning as well as that of the others. Thus, it promotes peer-learning and tutoring. Learn more in: Video Object Segmentation

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Learning that occurs through the exchange of knowledge among learners. Collaborative learning is a form of social learning. Learn more in: A Classification of Approaches to Web-Enhanced Learning

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The process in which individuals negotiate and generate meaning and solutions to problems through shared understanding. Learn more in: Constructivism in Online Distance Education

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Method of learning by which a group of learners collaborate to achieve improved learning results. Learn more in: Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Scenarios: And External Representations for Promoting Them

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is a term used for various educational approaches that involve intellectual efforts by groups/pairs of students working mutually to understand content, solve problems, and create projects. Learn more in: Learning Community and Networked Learning Community

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A situation in which two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together through joint problem solving ( Dillenbourg et al., 1999 ). Learn more in: Taxonomy of Collaborative E-Learning

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An approach to education that entails two or more students working together synchronously and interactively to devise joint solutions for problems. Through cooperation and discussion, learners contribute different understandings that lead to new and shared understandings. Learn more in: Online Education and Cultural Background

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An instruction method in which students work in groups toward a common academic goal. Learn more in: Reliability Issues of the Multicast-Based Mediacommunication

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Collaborative learning means learners working together to accomplish shared learning goals and to maximize their own and their group members’ achievements Learn more in: A Student Teacher Collaborative Community

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Learning that occurs by interaction with one’s peers and instructor and under the guidance of those more knowledgeable and experienced. It involves group work, discussion, and activities. Learn more in: Building Identity through Online Collaboration

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A way of learning in which students at various performance levels work together in small groups toward a common goal. Tandem learning is a type of collaborative learning. Learn more in: The Role of Error Correction in Online Exchanges

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An educational approach based the idea that learning is a naturally social act. The learner actively constructs knowledge by formulating ideas into words, and these ideas are built upon through reactions and responses of others. In other words, collaborative learning is not only active but also interactive. It is a student-centered approach in which social software tools are currently used for building and sharing knowledge. Learn more in: Web 2.0 Technologies: Social Software Applied to Higher Education and Adult Learning

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Takes place when learners work in groups on the same task simultaneously, thinking together over demands and tackling complexities. Collaboration is here seen as the act of shared creation and/or discovery. Within the context of electronic communication, collaborative learning can take place without members being physically in the same location (UNESCO). Learn more in: Hybrid Synergy for Virtual Knowledge Working

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Collaborative learning is a student-centred methodology for e-learning. By working in groups, students are the subject of their construction of knowledge while at the same time contributing to their peers’ learning. The construction of knowledge is achieved by the participation and interaction that occurs among all students when they become involved in activities aimed towards a common goal. It solidifies socialization not only by learning, but mainly in learning. Learn more in: The LOLA Strategy and E-Learning Knowledge Management

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A process that encourages learners to participate in coordinated and synchronous learning activities with a number of other learners. Learn more in: Collaborative Learning in a Mobile Technology Supported Classroom

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An environment where students work alone or in groups to complete a set of tasks, usually lessons, where they assist each other in learning. Learn more in: A Proposed Tool for Mobile Collaborative Reading

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A process of students and/or teachers addressing a common task in which they are mutually accountable. Learn more in: Concept Mapping as a Mediator of Constructivist Learning

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A pedagogy that engages students in teamwork and is closely related to cooperative learning. It is based on the assumption that learning goals are maximized by sharing knowledge among learners. Learn more in: Wiki Use in Higher Education: Implications for Group Size and Task Complexity

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Collaborative learning is a student-centred methodology which is used by some practitioners in e-learning. By working in groups, students are the subject of their construction of knowledge while at the same time they contribute to their peers learning. The construction of knowledge is achieved by the participation and interaction that occurs amongst all students when they get involved in activities that aim at a common goal. It solidifies socialisation not only by learning, but mainly in learning. Learn more in: Collaborative Learning and Concept Mapping for Language Teaching

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means that learners learn to listen to another, to argue and to justify, and become accustomed to change their positions. (Adey, Csapo, Demitriou, Hautamäki, & Shayer 2007, p. 93) Learn more in: Collaborative Learning by Developing (LbD) Using Concept Maps and Vee Diagrams

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A pedagogical approach in which learners socially interact in small groups to facilitate construction of knowledge. Learn more in: A Systematic Review of Research on Collaborative Learning with Concept Maps

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is an umbrella term for a variety of approaches in education that involve joint intellectual effort by students or students and teachers Learn more in: Concept Maps and Conceptual Change in Physics

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Collaborative learning requires a planned methodology if it is to be fully achieved, producing new knowledge through interrelationships stimulated by the elements that make up an action and promoting reflective and creative environments for problem solving. Learn more in: Concept Maps and Meaningful Learning

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Learning which encourages teams and small groups to work together Learn more in: On Using Wiki as a Tool for Collaborative Online Blended Learning

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Promoting communication and cooperation between students during their learning activities. Learn more in: Eight Educational Considerations for Hybrid Learning

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To work together, in a joint intellectual effort. Learn more in: Students Writing Their Own Lectures with a Wiki and the CSA

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An umbrella term for a variety of teaching and learning approaches that involve joint intellectual effort by learners, or by learners and teachers. Learners engage in a common task in which each individual depends on and is accountable to each other. Groups of learners work together in searching for understanding, meaning, or solutions, or in creating an artifact of their learning such as a particular product. Learn more in: Applying Web 2.0 Tools in Hybrid Learning Designs

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An educational approach based the idea that learning is a naturally social act. The learner actively constructs knowledge by formulating ideas into words, and these ideas are built upon through reactions and responses of others. In other words, collaborative learning is not only active but also interactive. It is a student-centered approach in which social software tools are currently used for building and sharing knowledge. Learn more in: Promoting Digital Competences through Social Software: A Case Study at the Rovira i Virgili University

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learning and collaboration environments between students, teachers and both – this adds new possibilities as it offers new ways for real time interaction between all learning actors. Learn more in: Evaluation of a Mobile Platform to Support Collaborative Learning: Case Study

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Collaborative learning is a student-centered methodology for learning. By working in groups, students’ knowledge is constructed by their participation and interaction. This is achieved by becoming involved in activities aimed toward a common goal. It solidifies socialization not only “by” learning but also “in” learning. Learn more in: The Utilization of Concept Maps as Knowledge Systematization and Text-Authoring Tools in Collaboration-Based Educational Processes: The LOLA Experiment

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Learning that involves the process of sharing resources and responsibilities to create shared meaning Learn more in: Information Competency and E-Learning

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Learning that required joint activity in which two or more learners negotiate meaning and process and contribute to the final outcome. Learn more in: Online Support for Collaborative Authentic Activities

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A method of teaching in which students work together to solve a problem, create a project, or explore a topic together. Learn more in: Innovative Instruction in STEM Education: The Role of Student Feedback in the Development of a Flipped Classroom

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The situation in which a group of individuals create knowledge throughout interaction, experience, and the assumption of roles. Learn more in: Creativity Development through Inquiry-Based Learning in Biomedical Sciences

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Collaborative learning is an instruction method in which learners participate in small groups working towards achieving a common goal. The small groups work at various levels based on their performance and knowledge levels. The groups of learners supplement one another in their learning activity besides learning on their own. Such a shared learning practice gives learners an opportunity to participate in discussions. Learn more in: Culture of Use of Moodle in Higher Education: Networked Relations between Technology, Culture and Learners

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This term is used to refer to students working on a computer-based learning program that requires them to collaborate by, for example, taking different roles, operating different controls, etc. Learn more in: Communicating across the Generations: Implications for Higher Education Leadership

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Collaborative learning is a student-centered methodology for learning. By working in groups, students’ knowledge is constructed by their participation and interaction. This is achieved by becoming involved in activities aimed toward a common goal. It solidifies socialization not only “by” learning but also “in” learning. Learn more in: LOLA: A Collaborative Learning Approach Using Concept Maps

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A general term for an approach to language teaching and learning which makes use of learners working together in small groups. Learn more in: Developing Young EFL Learners' Writing Skill in Wikis' Collaborative Environment

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Method of teaching and learning in which students’ explore a significant question or create a meaningful project. A group of students discussing a lecture or students from different schools working together over the Internet on a shared assignment are both examples of collaborative learning. Learn more in: A Collaborative Editor for Medical Learning Environments

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Activity in which a group of people learn from one another by actively engaging in exchanging knowledge and information based on their understanding and experience. Learn more in: Gender Differences and Cultural Orientation in E-Collaboration

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This is a method of learning where learners work as a group; in most cases in small groups for the purpose of accomplishing instructional goals. They interact and evaluate each other’s ideas as they work cooperatively on a given project to solve a learning problem. Learn more in: Constructivist Learning Framework and Technological Application

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Learning that occurs by interaction with one’s peers and instructor and under the guidance of those more knowledgeable and experienced. It involves group work, discussion, and activities. Learn more in: Building Identity through Online Collaboration

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Collaborative learning is an instructional approach in which a small number of learners interact together and share their knowledge and skills in order to reach a specific learning goal. Learn more in: Designing Interactive and Collaborative E-Learning Environments

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A form of learning in which a number of students work on a common goal, divide learning activities, and share knowledge and skills needed for achieving the final outcome of the learning process. Learn more in: The Factors Affecting Multimedia-Based Inquiry

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Where participants are engaged in a coordinated, continuing attempt to solve a problem or in some other way construct common knowledge. Crucially, collaboration involves a co-ordinated joint commitment to a shared goal, reciprocity, mutuality and the continual (re)negotiation of meaning. Learn more in: Using Talking Books to Support Early Reading Development

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Learning methodologies that promote collaboration among individuals to understand, share and expand the information that each one has about the topic. Learn more in: Consensual Concept Maps in Early Childhood Education

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A learning model in which learners at different performance levels work together in small groups toward common academic goals. Learn more in: Hybrid Inquiry-Based Learning

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A method of education that relies on students’ collaboration in joint activities toward achieving common educational goals. Learn more in: Competition and Collaboration in Translation Education: The Motivational Impact of Translation Contests

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Is essentially a social endeavor that needs to be situated in authentic human activity which provides opportunity for students to learn the skills of working in teams and to negotiate, discuss and constructively criticize solutions to problems, sometimes aiming at providing extended opportunities to produce a product and to reflect on its quality, and consequently the effectiveness of the process that led to its construction. Learn more in: Tips Towards Tackling Distance Education Modules: The Case of the Doctoral Program on Multimedia in Education

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Situation in which two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together in order to achieve a common goal. Learn more in: Enhancing Learner-Centered Instruction through Tutorial Management Using Cloud Computing

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It is defined as the action of two or more subjects working together to achieve a common goal (Kagan, 1999 AU97: The in-text citation "Kagan, 1999" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ). However, it is not defined as a “method” but as a context within which materialize forms of interaction ( Dillenbourg, 1999 ). Learn more in: Ubiquitous, Wearable, Mobile: Paradigm Shifts in E-Learning and Diffusion of Knowledge

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A situation in which two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together with an aim that knowledge can be better created or learned within a population where members actively interact by sharing experiences. Learn more in: Design and Evaluation of a Collaborative Learning System for 3D Model Sharing

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A model of learning that involves groups of students working together on a project or assignment. In this model, communication between students is crucial to a successful outcome. Learn more in: The Changing Role of Faculty

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refers to learning that takes place in situations where emphasis is placed on student-to-student interaction in the learning process, and the instructor’s role becomes that of a facilitator (a “guide-on-the-side”). Learn more in: Collaborative and Cooperative Learning

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A style of teaching and learning in which students work in teams toward a common goal. In some online courses, collaborative learning teams are used to encourage students to work cooperatively with each other. The idea is that students learn from each other while participating in teams (Florida Community College at Jacksonville). Learn more in: E-Learning as Organizational Strategy

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Learning that occurs through the exchange of knowledge among learners. Learn more in: Innovation in Web-Enhanced Learning

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mutual engagement of participants in a coordinated effort to solve the problem together. Learn more in: Collaborative Writing in E-Learning Environments

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Learning activities that are performed as part of a group. Learn more in: Managing Online Discussion Forums for Collaborative Learning

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A learning process based on both the individual study and the strong interaction among all the players in the process (trainees, tutors, experts), organized into actual networked learning groups. Learn more in: Technology Enhanced Learning in Continuing Medical Education

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Collaborative learning refers to methodologies and environments in which learners engage in a common task in which each individual depends on, and is accountable to, each other. Learners working together to accomplish shared learning goals and to maximize their own and their group members’ achievements Learn more in: Promoting Cooperative Learning for Preservice Teachers Through Information Technology

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Method of learning by which a group of learners collaborates to achieve improved learning results. Learn more in: Scripts for Facilitating Computer Supported Collaborative Learning

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A group process that involves participants contributing to and acquiring knowledge and understanding from the interaction Learn more in: A Critical Thinking Rubric as the Basis of Assessment and Curriculum

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Methodologies and environments in which learners engage in a common task in which each individual depends on and is accountable to each other. Groups of students work together in searching for understanding, meaning or solutions or in creating an artefact of their learning, such as a product. Learn more in: Microcultures, Local Communities, and Virtual Networks

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A methodological approach in which the learning process can be enhanced and facilitated if groups of learners can work together, using each others’ prior knowledge as a resource for the group (Glynn et al., 1995). Integrated within e-learning platform, the collaborative learning could also serve to reduce the lack of interaction characteristic of more traditional e-learning experiences, in which social interaction is absent from learning, since the learner only interacts with the computer. Learn more in: Experiential Learning in the Myself Project

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Collaborative learning is group learning in which students share resources to work in a constructivist type environment for learning to occur. Learn more in: Student and Faculty Satisfaction with Enterprise CMS

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Learning activities that encourage group work and co-operation between students. Learn more in: Destructive Creativity on the Social Web: Learning through Wikis in Higher Education

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Cooperative learning in small groups. Learn more in: Visualising Social Networks in Collaborative Environments

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An instruction method in which students work in groups toward a common academic goal. Learn more in: Comparing Lecturing and Small Group Discussions

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A group of individuals learning through collective intelligence, experiences, and technologies. Learn more in: Development and Sustainability of Learning Societies