Categorie: Tutti - assessment - empathy - flexibility - collaboration

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What strategies make people become part of a learning community and collaborate with their peers?

Fostering collaborative learning communities involves several strategies designed to enhance communication, structure, and motivation among participants. A shared goal must be clearly defined and understandable to all, fostering a sense of mutual responsibility and teamwork.

What strategies make people become part of a learning community and collaborate with their peers?

PBL Group 9 - Topic 3

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Take home messages

Encourage communication

Flexibility in group organisation

Sufficient time

Monitoring

Clear instructions

What strategies make people become part of a learning community and collaborate with their peers?

Engaging different personalities

Understand the different personalities among group members
Creating a psychologically safe space for sharing
Allows learners to choose the level of privacy of their conversations (public, class, restricted)
Allow flexibility to stimulate creativity in group organisation (e.g. tools, roles)
Form groups early to allow bounding
Establishing sense of community through empathy

Promoting shared goal among team members

Goal must be understandable and precise
Teams succeed when all members shared the same goal
Establish roles/responsibilities for a shared task
There is no (letter) "I" in (the word) "team":

Encouraging collaboration (instead of division of work)

Allow sufficient time
True collaboration takes longer than cooperation
Have group facilitators who can encourage collaboration
Prepare learners for collaboration and monitor progress
Encourage & enable regular, synchronous meetings involving the whole group
This involves thinking things through before the course begins

Rewarding collaborative behaviour

Intrinsic reward by assignments that allow for meaning making - pass or fail?
Assess collaboration by grading?
Collaboration as part of the assessment
Coherent assessment to minimise unfairness
According to Brindley et al., this may not help
Make individual work dependent on group work
Build motivation for collaboration into the course design

Encouraging equal distribution of effort

Monitoring might help but with the risk of “Big brother” feelings about being monitored
Establish different roles for a shared task
Give relevant tasks with clear guidelines
Assign tasks that are appropriate for groups to work on together
Train collaborative skills in academic settings