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Teachers and students: all learners!

In this post, I’m going to investigate whether the exercise sessions in one of my courses can be considered as collaborative learning experiences or not. In the ocean of possible definitions of collaborative learning, I choose the following definition, or better, explanation of collaborative learning: “students work together in small groups toward a common goal. […]

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From cooperation to collaboration. How reflection and choice of tool can influence the discussion.

The weeks are passing quickly, and we are now half way through the course. The last two weeks have not only brought many new ideas into my mind, but also gave me the opportunity to co-lead topic 3 with Bianca from Germany. Topic 3 was about collaborative learning, which encouraged to reflect on collaborative learning in …

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Personal learning networks

In Creating Effective Collaborative Learning Groups in an Online Environment the authors mention the theory of connectivism proposed by Siemens in 2005. This perspective describes my own learning experience for the last ten years perfectly. Let me expl…