What is Collaborative Learning?

by Barbara Leigh Smith and Jean T. MacGregor

“Collaborative learning” is an umbrella term for a variety of educational approaches involving joint intellectual effort by students, or students and teachers together.

Usually, students are working in groups of two or more, mutually searching for understanding, solutions, or meanings, or creating a product. Collaborative learning activities vary widely, but most center on students’ exploration or application of the course material, not simply the teacher’s presentation or explication of it.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040711062249/http://www.evergreen.edu/washcenter/spring1993_3-11.pdf

-- GregorioIvanoff - 15 Feb 2005
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