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    Collaborative Learning


    • Key Questions:

      • How do you organise sessions to help students form a community where they learn from each other and share experience or knowledge?
      • How do you model a collaborative learning process? 
      • How do you leverage the online space and collaboration tools so that sessions and independent study complement each other? 
      • How do you create opportunities for students to explore a topic in depth?
      • How do you build thinking time into activities to give students time to develop their ideas before communicating with others?
      • How do you ensure that each session builds on the previous session and prepares students for the next one?


    • Solent Good Practice

      Will Zoppelini and Jon Cooper discuss a research project they undertook to explore student engagement with different types of in-class activities. 


    • Active learning strategies: Roleplay Interactive Content

      Explore 5 different types of role your students can take on to explore information from different perspectives. 


    • Tools 

      • Classroom equipment and software: Make the most out of the teaching space. Find ways to use the movable cameras in the hover-cam visualisers or the Lynx software on the Clevertouch screens to create engaging interactions.
      • Answer garden: create an online brainstorming space for groups. 
      • Microsoft One Drive: have students create and share Word, PowerPoint, Excel documents or other files such as PDF and video through their university account. 
      • Bubbl.us: Use a collaborative mind mapping tool like bubbl.us to get students creating and sharing ideas. 
      • Quizlet: invite students to create decks of flashcards of key concepts. Cards can be created and shared.
      • Explore a selection of 30 digital collaboration tools. 


    • Resources

      • K Exley and R Dennick (2004) Small group teaching: tutorials, seminars and beyond This practical guide introduces activities and strategies for seminars and active learning sessions. 
      • S Habeshaw, G Gibbs, T Habeshaw (1987) 53 interesting things to do in seminars and tutorials. This short book summarises a variety of activities you could use to promote engagement and interaction in small group teaching sessions. 
      • E Barkley, K Cross and C  Major (2005) Collaborative learning techniques: a handbook for college faculty
      • D Boud, R Cohen and J Sampson (2001) Peer learning in Higher Education: learning from and with each other
      • Linkedin Learning (login)> Problem Based Learning



      Example active learning activities

      The short clips below illustrate activities you can adapt to help students work together and think creatively within your sessions. 

      • The jigsaw method
      • Lego serious play
      • How to draw to remember more
      • Four corners strategy
      • Place mats
      • Think-pair-share


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