Posts Tagged ‘collaborative learning’
January 21 - Promoting Student Success Through Collaboration
By: Oliver Dreon, PhD in Teaching and Learning
Last week, a student named Mary visited me during my office hours and presented me with an interesting dilemma. In one of her classes, a professor had distributed a study guide with a series of questions to help the students prepare for an upcoming exam. Mary, being the millennial student that she is, decided to upload the study guide into Google Docs and invite the rest of the class to contribute to the document. Students answered the study guide questions from each of their individual notes and then refined the answers from their peers.
September 18 - Using Group Work to Promote Deep Learning
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Designed appropriately, cooperative learning assignments can actually turn group work—what was once a frustrating exercise for instructors and students alike—into a powerful way to reinforce course concepts and promote understanding. Let Barbara Millis, director of the Teaching and Learning Center at the University of Texas at San Antonio, show you how.
February 22 - My Students Don’t Like Group Work
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog
Students don’t always like working in groups. Ann Taylor, an associate professor of chemistry at Wabash College, had a class that was particularly vocal in their opposition. She asked for their top 10 reasons why students don’t want to work in groups and they offered this list (which I’ve edited slightly).
July 28 - Twitter in the College Classroom: Engaging Students 140 Characters at a Time
By: Mary Bart in EdTech News and Trends
If it seems like everyone is tweeting these days, it’s not just your imagination.
In 2007 Twitter users, as a whole, made about 5,000 tweets a day. By 2008 the number had increased to 300,000 per day, before growing to 2.5 million per day in January 2009. Just one year later, in January 2010, the figure jumped to 50 million tweets per day.
February 26 - Three Ways to Increase the Quality of Students’ Discussion Board Comments
By: Sedef Uzuner and Ruchi Mehta in Asynchronous Learning and Trends
As more and more courses go online, interaction and knowledge building among students rely primarily on asynchronous threaded discussions. For something that is so central to online learning, current research and literature have provided instructors with little support as to how they can facilitate and maintain high-quality conversations among students in these learning environments. This article responds to this need by offering three strategies instructors can use to ensure educationally valuable talk in their online classes.
October 23 - Designing an Effective Collaborative Wiki Project
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
In this 90-minute seminar Rhonda Ficek, Ph.D., explains why wiki projects are the perfect way to streamline and support collaborative learning initiatives for both traditional and online students.
June 30 - Millennial Faculty Are Coming. Are You Ready?
By: Rob Kelly in Academic Leadership
Don’t look now but it won’t be long before Millennial faculty arrive on your campus as well. For four-year institutions, the first wave of Millennial faculty should arrive by 2013. For community colleges, where many faculty often are not required to have doctorates, the wave will arrive even sooner.
June 5 - Promoting Collaborative Learning in Online Courses
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
One of the biggest problems with doing group projects online (and face-to-face) is student resistance, says Jan Engle, coordinator of instruction development at Governors State University. “One of the best ways to overcome resistance is obviously for students to have a positive experience. Unfortunately, many of them come into an online class having had a
February 18 - Nine Strategies for Using IM in Your Online Course
By: Rob Kelly in Asynchronous Learning and Trends, Distance Learning Administration, Online Education
Instant messaging can be an effective online learning tool that can build community and foster collaborative learning. The following are some suggestions from Debby Kilburn, computer science professor at Cero Coso Community College, for making the most of this tool.
November 30 - Using Collaborative Teams In and Out of Class
By: Wordpress Admin in Online Seminars
This seminar examines barriers that prevent the successful use of collaborative teams in and out of the classroom and suggests methods for avoiding these pitfalls. In just 60 minutes, it shows how to incorporate assessment and manage teams while promoting shared responsibility for learning.
