Topic 3 Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning by Nina Albrecht https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70 ONL192 PBL 10 en-us 2019-10-28 08:27:10 UTC 2024-04-29 11:08:40 UTC hello@padlet.com Q1 What is collaborative learning? Why use it? nina_albrecht https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/407935213 2019-11-07 08:32:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/407935213 Q2 What are the challenges with collaborative learning? nina_albrecht https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/407935273 2019-11-07 08:32:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/407935273 Q3 How can you enhance collaborative learning? nina_albrecht https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/408516762 2019-11-08 07:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/408516762 Q1 Collaborating takes time bianca_prang https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409043006 I think everybody might have experienced, that working together with others take often more time than doing an assignments, etc. alone. Is it worth investing this extra time?]]> 2019-11-09 18:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409043006 Q1 Return at the latest at the end bianca_prang https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409044343 Investing time in collaboration activities especially in the beginning (getting to know others, talking about expecations, time which can be invested, ...) might help to have more open/more honest discussions during the work and will be rewared at latest in the end: less time putting results together, results might be better reflected by the group. If results have to be presented personally, the audience gets really quickly a feeling, how the contact/communication among the members during the group work was/is. 
...I know how hard it is to pause a moment in the beginning and not starting directly with working on the content... :-)... but it is worth it!]]> 2019-11-09 19:03:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409044343 Q2 Assessment bianca_prang https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409048041 Should collaborative learning be assessed? And what are student-motivating ways/tools?
I have no experience on this field, so please add views, experiences and thoughts....]]> 2019-11-09 19:32:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409048041 Self-Assessment bianca_prang https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409050549 - not self grading :-)
- supports self-monitoring and developing self-directed learning
- has to be learnt

]]> 2019-11-09 19:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409050549 Peer Review/Assessment bianca_prang https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409050668 Good idea. Problem: Students might be ill-equipped to peer-reviewing through previous educational experiences  (see colleagues sometimes as rivals) ]]> 2019-11-09 19:53:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409050668 Q2 Time nina_albrecht https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409208279 Yes, I think it is worth it. It might even be crucial  to work collaboratively and encourage collaboration amongst our students. Learning more/different is one good  reason of course, but collaboration is also a part of what we usually refer to as 21st Century Knowledge, skills that according to P21 will be needed in a time where "change is constant and learning never stops."]]> 2019-11-10 19:35:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409208279 Q3 Framework/scaffold nina_albrecht https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409228558 Discuss the purpose and benefits to the student. Motivate why you want them to collaborate. Connection to the curriculum, clear instructions/ communication, active learning through reflection is what I would call scaffolds/frameworks that are important for successful learning whether you collaborate or not. Also, don't take for granted that the students know how to do group work. Introduce terms like social loafing and let the group reflect on their own situation. ]]> 2019-11-10 21:34:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409228558 Q2/Q3 Active learning Assement nina_albrecht https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409231614 I have always been interested in active learning where reflection plays a central part. When I  look back at a group work that worked out really well during my time at the university,  the group had different tasks to fulfil, both individual and on a group basis. I think it was designed in a way that  activated us on an individual level, which then gave the group work a deeper level. I guess it was also easier for the professor to asses everyone by having assessment on both an individual and group level.

]]> 2019-11-10 21:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409231614 Definition of collaborative learning (CL) rafirashid https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409317440 Here's a comprehensive definition from the Sydney School of Education & Social Work (University of Sydney):

"Collaborative learning is an umbrella term for a variety of approaches in education that involve joint intellectual effort by students or students and teachers. 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. It involves use of small groups so that all students can maximise their learning and that of their peers. It is a process of shared creation: two of more individuals interacting to create a shared understanding of a concept, discipline or area of practice that none had previously possessed or could have come to on their own. Collaborative learning activities can include collaborative writing, group projects, and other activities." (Emphases mine)]]> 2019-11-11 05:40:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409317440 Why use CL? rafirashid https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409318678 What I like about this definition is that, for example, it explains how collaborative learning leads to one of the benefits of CL listed on the Cornell Centre for Teaching Innovation website, i.e. development of higher-level thinking (by encouraging students to "create a shared understanding of a concept, discipline, or area of practice". This ties in with the goals of the higher levels (evaluation and synthesis) of the revised version of Bloom's Taxonomy, which can be found here.

Other benefits include:
1. development of oral communication, self-management, and leadership skills
2. promotion of student-faculty interaction
3. increase in student retention, self-esteem, and responsibility
4. exposure to and an increase in understanding of diverse perspectives
5. preparation for real-life social and employment situations]]> 2019-11-11 05:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409318678 Q2 Time goozzy https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409365656 Yes it can take time but it is worth it!
In a good learning environment, the collaboration can make the learners push each other to higher levels of knowledge and inspire each other since everyone is bringing something unique to the table.

But it takes time to establish this in a group so that everyone feels confortable and secure. If I look back on my own experience of this I can only think of one group constellation where we lifted each other and the collaboration really did work. In that case we had known each other for two years.

]]> 2019-11-11 09:34:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409365656 Q3 Enhancing Communication Openess... bianca_prang https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409366438 ...by explicit statements about everyone`s idea being valuated and sanctions against unreflected inappropriate critisim (like in ONL where our comments our on blogs are first monitored...)]]> 2019-11-11 09:37:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409366438 Assessment goozzy https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409369254 Yes both self-assessment and by peers requires practice. One also have to explain to the students why their supposed to make these assessments. It’s much easier to give too positive comments on co-students to keep them happy than to criticize. But when that happen the student on the receiving end will not learn anything from it. Both the assessor and the assessed must understand that it is part of the learning process.

When it comes to self-assessment most people tend to be too harsh on themselves. To be self-critical probably won’t require much practice but to see the positive sides of one’s own work and efforts might do so. It’s probably in the human nature.

]]> 2019-11-11 09:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409369254 Q 2 minna_lehtola1 https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409404088  Yes, by reflecting their experience, by having the students to articulate or produce their ideas, and reports. I think refection is a key word. ]]> 2019-11-11 11:46:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409404088 Q 1 minna_lehtola1 https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409404864 Collaborative technologies offer a range of new ways of supporting learning by enabling learners to share and exchange both ideas and their own digital products. This is great about CL.]]> 2019-11-11 11:48:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409404864 Q 2 minna_lehtola1 https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409406519 Yes, I agree. The challenge for digital technologies I think has a bit to do with how to deliver a "genuinely" enhanced learning experience. But as we have ourselves seen on ONL 192, it is more about how to get used work online and to have the courage to use new working tools. ]]> 2019-11-11 11:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409406519 Q 3 minna_lehtola1 https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409408884 I think it is essential to provide the opportunity for answers from the teachers or peers.]]> 2019-11-11 12:00:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409408884 Q2 Reflection on lack of time nina_albrecht https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409653352 Is it possible that the lack of time is a structural problem within educational institutions? If time is always a constraint, is it because we are not using it the right way, or is it because we changed the content without changin the framework?  I can't help but think of Sir Ken Robinsons TedTalk lecture Changing education paradigms where  he claims that Education is modeled on the interests of industrialism, (direct link) claiming among many things that schools are organised as factory lines with children graduating in yearly batches from  the industrial building where they have been taught one subject at the time. "If you are interested in model of education you don't start from  production  line mentality.", he says. Is that what the time restriction comes from? An old paradigm? Do we need to think differently about how much time is required instead of trying to achieve goals within an unreasonable amount of time? (my reflection)]]> 2019-11-11 19:42:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/409653352 Resources nina_albrecht https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/410237368 Articles
- Brindley, J., Blaschke, L. M. & Walti, C. (2009). Creating effective collaborative learning groups in an online environment. 

Film
- Changing education paradigms. Sir Ken Robinson (Youtube) 2010

Websites
Cornell University Center for teaching Innovation. (link)
- Collaborative Learning (link)
- Active Learning (link)
(Visited on Nov 12th 2019)

- The vision and framework for 21st Century Knowledge by The P21 Framework for 21st Century Learning.
The difference between groups and collaboration. (link)

Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (Iowa State University)

Definition of collaborative learning (University of Sydney)

]]> 2019-11-12 20:23:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/410237368 Reflection on PBL 10 group collaboration nina_albrecht https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/410237735 Link to results: Mentimeter 1st reflection  8th of November
Link to results: Mentimeter 2nd reflection 14-15th of November]]> 2019-11-12 20:24:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/410237735 Q3 Trust und Relationship bianca_prang https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/410839799 Collaborative learning/working is enhanced by trust and relationship. Not by competition for grades, money/public or private subsidies or permanent employment contracts...]]> 2019-11-13 20:00:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/410839799 Group size and creating groups christien_thiart https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/411327550 For me this would be the most difficult task. What is an optimun group size? Does groups form informaly, or do the instructor play a role?]]> 2019-11-14 16:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/411327550 Things to establish at the first meeting of a group: christien_thiart https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/411336653 I find this list quite scary, and if I was a student with a challenging academic timetable, I would definitely avoid this class

]]> 2019-11-14 17:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/411336653 jamie_murugan https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/411637818 It is important to distinguish between group work and collaboration]]> 2019-11-15 06:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/411637818 nina_albrecht https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/412328355 2019-11-17 10:45:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nina_albrecht/7ze59xyxmi70/wish/412328355