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• Title: Using the Jigsaw Model to Facilitate Cooperative Learning in an Online Course (Report)
• Author : Quarterly Review of Distance Education
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 226 KB

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Collaborative learning offers many advantages over more competitive, relative ability-based pedagogy--including higher-order thinking, increased motivation, and greater student satisfaction (Barkley, Cross, & Major, 2005). Millis and Cottell (1998) suggested that, by emphasizing shared goals, learning environments that promote collaboration can increase group cohesion and encourage interdependence among students. Johnson, Johnson, Holubec, and Roy (1984) highlighted the importance of encouraging interdependence, especially in learning environments that contain obstacles for successful group bonding and community development--like those that depend largely on the computer as a means of communication among class participants. As computers and the Internet have taken on a larger and more prominent role in our society, computer-mediated communication (CMC) has risen as a common form of social interaction, often serving as an integral component of daily life. Although CMC offers many advantages for learning, including the opportunities for distance education on a global scale, it also presents many obstacles that may prevent successful group transactions. Brignall and Valey (2005) pointed out that CMC often takes the form of text-only communication, which can drastically reduce the quantity and quality of social cues embedded in an interaction (tone, facial expressions, hand gestures, and other nonverbal messages).

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