Learning to Collaborate, Collaborating to Learn: Practical Guidance for Online and Classroom Instruction by Janet Salmons
Students who know how to collaborate successfully in the classroom will be better prepared for professional success in a world where we are expected to work well with others. Students learn collaboratively, and acquire the skills needed to organize and complete collaborative work, when they participate in thoughtfully-designed learning activities.
Learning to Collaborate, Collaborating to Learn uses the author's Taxonomy of Online Collaboration to illustrate levels of progressively more complex and integrated collaborative activities.
Learning to Collaborate, Collaborating to Learn uses the author's Taxonomy of Online Collaboration to illustrate levels of progressively more complex and integrated collaborative activities.
- Section I introduces the Taxonomy of Online Collaboration and offers theoretical and research foundations.
- Section II focuses on ways to use Taxonomy of Online Collaboration, including, clarifying roles and developing trust, communicating effectively, organizing project tasks and systems.
- Section III offers ways to design collaborative learning activities, assignments or projects, and ways to fairly assess participants' performance.