Despite it be the online environment or not, the assessments should always be aligned with the intended learning objectives and planned accordingly to assess higher order cognitive skills. The traditional view point of testing knowledge has shifted to assessing skills and application. In order to achieve this there are multitude of assessment techniques implemented. In […]

Collaboration is a skill. How can we facilitate students in developing this skill through collaborative learning? Collaborative learning is defined as “a situation in which two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together,” (Dillenbourg, P.,1999).  and on simplified terms  as joint problem solving. Student collaboration has shown to improve outcomes if done […]

This week’s ONL topic shed light on the essential elements required for effective collaborative learning. In my PBL Group meeting, one of the members asked these questions: “What’s so wrong with “divide and conquer”? I’ve always done it this way… Have I been doing collaboration wrong all this while?” This made me think more carefully […]