Collaborative Learning

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Foster Community in Your Classroom

When you incorporate collaborative learning in your course, you go beyond teaching tangible learning material, you teach intangibles, such as social skills and leadership. Students will:

Connect with each other while navigating matters of trust, responsibility, and relationship-building.
Gain perspectives from one another, along with the knowledge they gain about the subject matter.
Develop real-world skills of teamwork and management, negotiation and networking, organizing and responsibility.

Use the methods below to foster collaboration in your course.

Peer-to-Peer Feedback

Peer assessment lets students share perspectives, practice constructive criticism, and build trust. Use Peerceptiv to design assignments around group projects, oral presentations, peer review, and anonymous peer evaluation.

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Social Annotation

Let students tackle assigned reading together. Perusall is a group study tool that lets them highlight, comment, and annotate documents collectively, and learn more about a topic by crowd-sourcing than they could by reading alone.

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Verbal Feedback

Do you need your students to critique media? Voicethread lets them add vocal annotations over any video-based (or image-based) learning content. This method is great for collaborating on (or debating about) media.

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Discussion Boards

Threaded conversations let students share critiques, debate issues, and share knowledge. Brightspace's Discussion Boards help learners hear from a more diverse mix of perspectives than they may get during class time.

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