White paper
Collaboration in e-learning
Making collaborative learning work
The Internet allows individuals and groups to timeshift their
communications and annihilates physical distance, opening
up new possibilities for collaborative learning. We can now
learn in groups that are geographically dispersed and meet
across time on the Internet, rather than in face-to-face classroom
events.
However, while many instances exist of successful collaboration
on the web, at least as many initiatives suffer from low participation
rates, disappointing collaboration and bad levels of learning
performance and satisfaction.
If there is such a thirst for online collaboration, why do
so few people participate? Collaborative learning, on examination,
might seem to be a world of the disappointed and disappeared.
This white paper from Donald Clark, CEO of Epic Group plc,
surveys the methods for online collaborative learning and examines
the factors that cause online learning communities to succeed or
fail, seeking answers to the following questions:
- Does collaboration enhance learning?
- Can collaboration actually inhibit learning?
- What works best, asynchronous or synchronous collaboration?
- What causes online learning communities to succeed?
White Paper: Collaboration in e-learning
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Summary of contents:
- Collaborative learning - communities or ghost towns?
- Methods of online collaborative learning
- Asynchronous communication
- Synchronous communication
- Integrated systems
- Asynchronous or synchronous collaboration?
- Asynchronous good, synchronous bad
- Against synchronous virtual classrooms
- Case study: Procter & Gamble
- Can collaboration inhibit learning?
- Can collaboration enhance learning?
- Simple collaboration
- Benefits of online collaboration
- What causes online learning communities to succeed?
- Developing a learning community
- Features of an online learning community
- Group dynamics
- Social interaction
- Conclusion
- Epic Thought Leadership Programme
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