Student Collaboration

Improves Retention Enhances Learning

What Is Student Collaboration?

“Collaborative learning is an educational approach to

teaching and learning that involves groups of learners working together to solve a

problem, complete a task, or create a product.”

(Srinivas, 2009)

What Is Student Collaboration?

“Collaboration is the social process that supports learners' development of capabilities in which they learn

to do without assistance things that they could initially

do only with assistance” (Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology, 2003).

What Is Student Collaboration?

Collaborative learning is instruction that involves students working in teams

to accomplish a common goal.(Johnson, Johnson, and Smith, 1991)

Is Collaboration Necessary?

In recent years, learning process has changed.

Then: Individual's acquisition of knowledge.

Now: Socially-enabled developmental process.

Collaboration is required!

What Students Need To Collaborate

Task/Problem/Project Positive interdependence Individual accountability Time to interact Appropriate use of collaborative skills Meaningful guidance & assistance Assessment of progress

Collaboration Improves Retention

"The extent the individual becomes academically and socially

integrated into the academic and social systems

of an institution determineswhether or not a student decides

to leave an institution.”(Tinto, 1993)

Collaboration Enhances Learning

Cultivates brainstorming Stimulates critical thinking Provides better interactive support Reduces processing time Develops higher level thinking skills Builds self esteem in students Enhances student satisfaction

Student collaboration:

Collaboration Enhances Learning

Promotes positive attitude toward topic Promotes active, involved learning Promotes higher achievement Addresses learning style differences Resembles real life social & job situations Increases leadership skills

Student collaboration:

References

Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLTC), Georgia State University. (2003). Enabling student collaboration for learning. Retrieved May 29, 2010 from http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwltc/howto/enablestudentcollab.htm

Johnson, D. W., Johnson, R. T., & Smith, K. A. (1991). Cooperative learning: Increasing

college faculty instructional productivity. ASHE-FRIC Higher Education Report No.4. Washington, D.C.: School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University.

Srinivas, H. (2009). Collaborative learning. Retrieved June 1, 2010 from

http://www.gdrc.org/kmgmt/c-learn/index.html Tinto, V. (1993). Tinto's dimensions of institutional action. Retrieved May 29, 2010

from http://www.etorpy.com/Tinto.htm