This document discusses collaborative online learning and strategies for effective collaboration. It notes that collaboration works best for complex tasks when participants have time to develop understanding and bring diverse skills and perspectives. However, there are also barriers to collaborative learning like tradition, lack of teacher time and support, and student resistance. The document explores how to create inclusive and safe collaborative spaces both online and offline through community building, clear structure, facilitation and support. It provides examples of online collaborative tools and strategies for smarter and networked collaboration across institutions.
3. Collaboration issues
• Cooperation vs collaboration
• Uneven workloads
• Unclear benefits
• Easier to do it yourself …
Designing effective collaborative learning in education. Inholland Hogeschool
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4. Collaboration works best when …
Complex task
Time for development
Diverse skills and
perspectives
Clear rules
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5. Collaborative learning - barriers
• Tradition
• Teachers lack time and
support
• Student expectations
Student Resistance to
Collaborative Learning, Stover &
Holland (2018)
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7. Introvert
Not familiar with
rules of group
Feel overwhelmed
and ignored by
confident
participants
Not fluent in
course language
Need time to think
Contextual silence
Cultural reasons – not
polite to question the
teacher
Low self-confidence Multitasking
Only interested in
the certificate
Bored
Reasons for silence
8. Inclusion – silent learners
• Give everyone a voice
• Recognise different
types of participation:
reflection, analysis,
observing, discussion,
production
• Silent learners – a guide
9. Creating safe spaces
Community of trust
Clear structure and rules
Facilitation
Socialisation
Support
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Five stage model – Gilly Salmon
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Extending the
discussion
12. Asynchronous arenas
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• Vital work skill
• Multimodality
• Time for reflection
• Widen participation
• Online facilitation
techniques
13. Collaborative work spaces - Padlet
Notes from
classroom groups
Notes from online
groups
Recorded
lecture SlidesPhotos
Links
Video
Audio
Follow-up
material
20. Facilitation in ONL
Create supportive learning
communities
PBL groups with 2 video
meetings per week
Asynchronous and synchronous
collaboration
”More face-to-face than many
campus courses”
21. • Next iteration, ONL192, starts 16 September
• Join as open learners (limited places available)
• Join as partner institution in 2020
• https://www.opennetworkedlearning.se/join-onl192/