COLLABORATION AND PEER TO PEER LEARNING
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Collaborative Learning
"Collaborative learning is an educational approach to teaching and learning that involves groups, working together to solve a problem, complete a task, or create a product". Successful collaborative learning has the potential to bring out the unique strengths of each individuals in a group, while strengthening the group through teamwork, cooperation and combined effort and resources. (Uopeople, 2021).
How Collaborative Learning Works?
The group should offer opportunities for a team, to work collaboratively with one another. The group should have a forum in which members can raise issues and questions relating to team vision or activities. Instructors or Team leaders, monitor the discussion forum, making it an excellent place to voice concerns, share insights, develop relationships with leaders and peers, and get help with any challenges one is facing with the team. (Uopeople, 2021).
Online team forums and peer review groups are one of the most valuable aspects of the group . There should be a strong online community, members make connections from all around the world. The opportunities for peer-to-peer and collaborative learning allow us to build a vibrant, international network and to share information, wisdom, and support. (Uopeople, 2021).
Advantages of Collaborative Learning
Learning how to work effectively in a group strengthens important skills like communication and compromise. Team members, learn how to defend their ideas, but just as often they may have to learn to compromise on those ideas. These skills are vitally important in most work environments today, where at least some of the work being done will be in a collaborative group setting. (Uopeople, 2021).
Collaborative learning can also be helpful in its ability to expose team members to diversity. The group should be diverse in many ways and team members from all over the community and world. Through working collaboratively, team may come to better understand one another culturally, personally, and as thinkers. In group settings, our ideas are often challenged, and this is precisely when they grow. By sharing thoughts, struggles, concerns, ideas, criticisms and support, members can push their work further than they may have been able to do alone. (Uopeople, 2021).
Pexels-photo Peer-to-Peer Learning
"Peer-to-peer learning, or peer learning, is an educational practice in which students interact with one another to attain educational goals". Alongside guidance from instructor or team leaders, peer learning allows members to work through new concepts and material with other individuals engaged in the same work and provides them with opportunities to teach and be taught by one another, expanding their perspectives and fostering meaningful connections. (Uopeople, 2021).
How Peer Learning Works?
Peer learning is an important aspect of any group and unique educational model. All team members participate in a system of peer assessments for their discussion assignments. These peer assessments are not only an important element of a group philosophy, but also contribute to member's final tests. (Uopeople, 2021).
Within the group, members must share their responses to the given assignment within a discussion forum. The team work is then reviewed carefully by three other team members in the group. While this is happening, the person being reviewed will also be expected to review and assess the discussion thoughts of three of his or her peers. (Uopeople, 2021).
This valuable experience gives the team insight into the ideas and perspectives of their teammates and sharpens their critical thinking skills. This is a key element of how learning and community are emphasized in my group. (Uopeople, 2021).
Team members should be given guidelines to help them with their Peer Assessments, instructing them on how to best give constructive, helpful feedback to their fellow teammates. (Uopeople, 2021).
Advantages of Peer Learning
Peer learning and peer assessments are designed to give the team skills that will prove helpful and necessary throughout their vision and professional careers. The first of these is the fostering of a learning community. Peer learning allows team members who may be located very far from one another to build a global network. This also prepares the team for the unique experience of working in a global community – a skill necessary for today’s professional culture. (Uopeople, 2021).
Teamwork and cooperation are developed through peer learning. These skills will also be of great importance in many professional settings. In most workplaces, it is not only the “boss” who gives comments, feedback, suggestions, and constructive criticisms but one’s peers as well. (Uopeople, 2021).
Learning how to listen respectfully and respond constructively to such feedback, as well as learning to craft and respectfully express such feedback to one’s peers, is an important skill in today’s workplaces. (Uopeople, 2021).
Uopeople. (2021). Collaboration and peer to peer learning. LRC. https://my.uopeople.edu/mod/page/view.php?id=223361
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