Collaborate

Examples of Collaborate in the following topics:

• Optional Collaborative Classroom Activity

• Collaboration

  • Vygotsky (1978) theorized that communication and collaborative group work can enhance individuals' thinking and learning.
  • Collaboration seems to work best when students depend on each other to reach a desired goal, when there are rewards for group performance, and when students know how to work together effectively (Driscoll, 1994).
  • Betty assigned group work at the initial phase because her previous experience showed that students show deeper engagement and persistence when they work collaboratively.
  • In the collaborative learning process, students often inspire each other.

• Optional Collaborative Classrom Exercise

  • Do the following exercise collaboratively with up to four people per group.

• Optional Collaborative Classroom Activity

• Optional Collaborative Exercise

• Project-Based Learning in the Classroom: What does it involve?

  • By participating in both independent work and collaboration, learners improve their problem solving skills thereby developing their critical thinking skills.
  • Increased collaboration: In the processing stages, learners create and organize their groups.
  • They share knowledge and collaboratively construct artifacts.
  • Through collaboration, they develop social communication skills and obtain multiple perspectives

• Collaborative vs. Cooperative Learning

  • Collaborative and cooperative learning are so closely related that the two terms are often used interchangeably.
  • Collaborative learning has British roots and is based on the findings of English instructors who explored ways to help students take a more active role in their learning.
  • It is a "specific kind of collaborative learning" (Disney).

• Virtual Teams

  • A virtual team is a temporary group created to accomplish specific tasks by using technology to collaborate remotely.
  • A virtual team is a group of individuals in different geographic locations who use technology to collaborate on work tasks and activities.
  • Coordination of tasks: A virtual team needs a clear set of objectives and a plan for how to achieve them in order to focus and direct collaboration among team members.
  • When virtual teams cross national boundaries, differences in language and culture require the ability to negotiate barriers to communication and collaboration.
  • When these are missing, team members can lose focus and collaboration can suffer, leading to delays, conflict, and other performance issues.

• Productivity Gains from Software

  • Google Docs are a particularly popular and easy to use set of collaborative softwares.
  • Collaborative software was originally designated as groupware and this term can be traced as far back as the late 1980s, when Richman and Slovak said, "Like an electronic sinew that binds teams together, the new groupware aims to place the computer squarely in the middle of communications among managers, technicians, and anyone else who interacts in groups, revolutionizing the way they work. "
  • Collaborative software has produced major gains in productivity.
  • Agile software development is a group of software development methods based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams.
  • Through this work we have come to value: individuals and interactions over processes and tools; working software over comprehensive documentation; customer collaboration over contract negotiation; responding to change over following a plan.

• Social Constructivism and Instructional Models

  • Instructional models based on the social constructivist perspective stress the need for collaboration among learners and with practitioners in the society (Lave & Wenger, 1991; McMahon, 1997).
  • Social constructivist approaches can include reciprocal teaching, peer collaboration, cognitive apprenticeships, problem-based instruction, webquests, anchored instruction and other methods that involve learning with others (Shunk, 2000).