Sequence: Planning collaboration using the "Group Investigation" method within LAMS
Sequence Information Sequence: Planning collaboration using the "Group Investigation" method within LAMS Description: Keywords:Collaboration, Learning Design, Group Investigation
Subject:Planning Collaboration using the "Group Investigation" method within LAMS
Audience:Teachers, Researchers
Goals: 1) to organise the class, 2) to design activities promoting versatile approaches, 3) to promote plural discussion on learning material, 4) to enrich teacher-student interaction.
Process: 1) Teacher sets the problems to be studied, 2) Teacher shares educational materials, 3) Groups analyse the given problem in sub-problems, 4) Each member of the group studies a specific sub-problem, 5) Teacher provides additional material, 6) Discussion and drawing of conclusions, 7) Collaborative writing of reports, 8) Assessment and enhancement of reports in discussion with teacher, 8) Presentation of the main ideas, 9) Final interaction between students, 10) Assessment.
Remarks on Design: Stop gates were not used for design simplicity
Support files: 1)Documentation 2)The asynchronous version of the "Group Investigation" implementation.
References
Abell, S.K. & Lederman, N.G. (2007), Handbook of research on science education Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Kordaki, M., Siempos, H. and Daradoumis, T. (2009, submitted). Collaborative learning design within open source e-learning systems: lessons learned from an empirical study. In G. Magoulas (Ed), E-Infrastructures and Technologies for Lifelong Learning: Next Generation Environments. IDEA-Group Publishing.
Sharan, S. and Hertz-Lazarowitz, R. (1980). A group-investigation method of cooperative learning in the classroom. In Sharan, P. Hare, C. Webb & R. Hertz-Lazarowitz (Eds.), Cooperation in education. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press.
Authors: Maria Kordaki, Haris Siempos
Contact:kordaki@cti.gr,hsiempos@hotmail.comAuthor view:
Audience: Subjects: Language: English LAMS Version: 2.3.0. License: Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike
Support Files:
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