Good learning, like good work, is collaborative and social, with no competition and not isolated. Students learn from one another. The sharing of experiences and ideas enhances thought processing and increases understanding.
This can be accomplished by assigning students group work or projects. Having students evaluate one anothers work is another was to accomplish a sense of community among the students.
Discussion Questionscan also contribute to the community enhancement if tailored correctly and given topics of sharing one's own experiences and opinions.
Group work has additional challenges in distance learning, what techniques could an instructor incorporate to eliminate or ease some of these challenges?
I think by providing reasonable timelines for project completion is one way that an instructor can ease some of the challenges.
ReplyDeleteI have recently discovered that when too many different assignments are given and not enough time to focus on each individually it compromises the learning and the quality of the end product. This is something that as an educator with high expectations that I have done to my students in the past so this realization made me a better teacher.
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