COOPERATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE ONLINE LEARNING Rosseni Din, PhD PPA Academic Advancement Course

Overview  Quality Education  Meaningful learning  Hybrid/Blended online learning with Web 2.0 technology  Collaborative & Cooperative Learning  Best practices

Quality Education  Creating a learning environment where individuals with a variety of skills can INCREASE knowledge, skills and the abilities to ADAPT to changing environments so that they can act as informed citizens of the world.  Harris-Ransom et al. 2010

Quality Education  Rule #1: Know Your Audience Rule #1: Know Your Audience

Meaningful Learning for Quality Education

Cooperative Collaborative Learning  Creating a learning environment where individuals with a variety of skills can INCREASE knowledge, skills and the abilities to ADAPT to changing environments so that they can act as informed citizens of the world.  Harris-Ransom et al. 2010

Cooperative Collaborative Learning  Definition by Group 1:

Cooperative Collaborative Learning  Definition by Group 2:

Cooperative Collaborative Learning  Definition by Group 3:

Cooperative Collaborative Learning  Definition by Group 4:

Cooperative Collaborative Learning  Definition by Group 5:

Cooperative Collaborative ONLINE Learning Using Web 2.0

Cooperative Collaborative Online Learning: The Hybrid Approach Using Weblog

 Combination of online learning in a regular conventional face-to-face learning Course structure/Course Outline or Course HandbookCourse Handbook Text BookBook Other complementary instructional media – CD-ROMsCD-ROMs A course blog i.e the Computer Education BlogComputer Education Blog  Tutorials  More and different opportunities to present materials  Opportunity to improve learning via reflections and interpersonal communication  Frequent feedbacks Designing Effective Online AssigmentsOnline Assigments

Hybrid/Blended Learning: Handbook

Hybrid/Blended Learning: Text Book

Hybrid/Blended Learning: CD-Based Media

Hybrid/Blended Learning: Blog

Practical Issues: Group Participation  Class Participation  Question: How do you encourage students to participate in a cooperative group project?  Question: How do you encourage students to participate in a collaborative online classroom?  Question: How does this differ from the traditional classroom?

Collaborative Online Learning  How to encourage participation? A 10% overall carry marks?  Rubric: Focusing on meaningful participation – not just adding entry Rubric  Frequency: Once a week is practical – in reality more frequent participation would put the student in a much better position to make timely and meaningful contributions?  - at least 3 meaningful post/week or per online lecture/tutorial would be an A, 2 meaningful posts would be a B, and 1 would be a C.  - simply posting a short “me too” comment is not considered a “meaningful” post and will not support a strong grade for the week/lecture/tutorial.

Grading for Collaborative Online Participation  Grade A  Posted at least 3 comments  Provides relevant facts thoroughly  Comments or posting demonstrate a comprehensive analysis and/or interpretation of the issue  Support opinions by citing relevant and scholarly sources  Adds some new thought to the discussion critique another person’s point of view

Grading for Collaborative Online Participation  Grade B  Posted at least 2 comments  Provides limited facts  Does not clearly state the issue  Provided adequate but not comprehensive analysis of the issue  Sometimes supports key statements with relevant scholarly resources  Student show partial understanding

Grading for Collaborative Online Participation  Grade C  Posted at least 1 comments  Comments or posting does not reflect a comprehensive analysis or reading of the issue  Does not clearly state the issue  Analysis is only vaguely supported by scholarly work  Student merely restates what is in the text instead of interpret the issue  Sometimes supports key statements with relevant scholarly resources  Student show partial understanding

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