Creating and managing effective interactions is crucial for instructors, especially in online learning environments where not everyone may naturally excel in collaborative tasks. The role of the teacher includes facilitating these interactions to foster social and emotional development among students.
Social skills: collaborative learning involves negotiating with others, reaching consensus and managing conflict.
peer interactions lead to positive social and emotional development, help learners to discover missing information, gain new insights and have an individual range of potential growth
“serves to make public what individuals and group members know”
nstructors must be skillful enough to create and manage interaction at all times because not everyone manages to successfully interact or work with others in online tasks. It demands certain skills and behaviors that sometimes need to be mediated by the teacher.
principles
Individual accountability
Positive interdependence
Subtopic
Equal participation
Simultaneous interaction
“collaborative learning tasks encourage learner autonomy, build teamwork, alter the role of teachers and students, allow students to scaffold, facilitate class discussion, and promote critical thinking
it is desirable to design collaborative activities based on an effective pedagogical framework and the context the students’ belong to, attempting they perceive the need to collaborate with other students online
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