Collaborative Learning

Collaborative Learning

Competent Digital Educators use digital technologies to foster and enhance learner collaboration. They enable learners to use digital technologies as part of collaborative assignments; as a means of enhancing communication, collaboration, and collaborative knowledge creation.

Typical activities

  • They implement collaborative learning activities in which digital devices, resources or digital information strategies are used.
  • They implement collaborative learning activities in a digital environment, e.g. using blogs, wikis, learning management systems.
  • They employ digital technologies for collaborative knowledge exchange among learners.
  • They monitor and guide learners in their collaborative knowledge generation in digital environments.
  • They require learners to digitally present their collaborative efforts and assist them in doing so.
  • They use digital technologies for peer-assessment and as a support for collaborative selfregulation and peer-learning.
  • They use digital technologies to experiment with new formats and methods for collaborative learning.

    • When mastering this competence by doing the work in the lab, you should be able to say:

  • When implementing collaborative activities or projects, I encourage learners to use digital technologies to support their work, e.g. for internet search or to present their results.
  • I design and implement collaborative activities, in which digital technologies are used by learners for their collaborative knowledge generation, e.g. for sourcing and exchanging information.
  • I require learners to document their collaborative efforts using digital technologies, e.g. digital presentations, videos, blog posts.
  • I set up collaborative activities in a digital environment, e.g. blogs, wikis, moodle, virtual learning environments.
  • I monitor and guide learners’ collaborative interaction in digital environments.
  • I use digital technologies to enable learners to share insights with others and receive peer-feedback, also on individual assignments.

    In the lab we will also:

  • Learn to design and manage diverse collaborative learning activities, where learners use a variety of technologies to collaboratively conduct research, document findings and reflect on their learning, both in physical and in virtual learning environments.
  • Learn to use digital technologies for peer-assessment and as a support for collaborative self-regulated and peer-learning.