Collaborative learning is a widely adopted instructional method for learners across all ages, be it in Schools, Institutes of Higher Learning and even in the workplace. Moving away from the traditional passive learning environments in which the teacher conveys knowledge and the student responds (Chen, 2009), collaborative learning facilitate learners to interact, explore and collaborate …

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Students usually sign up for an online course assuming that assignments will be done individually. There is an expectation that online environments will favor asynchronous interaction between the student and the instructor. So, some students groan when they find out there will be group assignments and resist this team-based approach to distance learning. To beContinue reading “Doing being collaborative and cooperative”

We have all taken part in groupwork at some point in our lives. Whereas we tend to have a nose for recognizing very easily if our collaboration with others is not smooth – whether there are some aspects that fall short, or whether there is someone who does not contribute as much as the othersContinue reading “Are we being collaborative, or rather just cooperative? – Towards promoting collaborative thinking and learning experience”

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What’s learning community?  From my understand, we are from the same PBL class, We are in the PBL learning community. How about learning Network? For me, some people from Youtube , Facebook, Twitter, are leading the learning Network professionall…

I recently saw a documentary “A Life on Our Planet” narrated by David Attenborough (Hughes, Scholey, & Fothergill, 2020). In it, he put forth a notion that unlike other flora and fauna, humans do not need physical change in their bodies to create changes to the world around them. Humans can do that, but humans […]

Open education, as a second topic in the course, took me by surprise. Even if the concept was not really new to me and I have very limited experience with actually undertaking any type of open education. Our group soon realized that it was a far more complex topic than what we initially thought. ThereContinue reading “Open education as a Disruption”