Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Student collaboration

Web 2.0 tools are making the distance disolve between online students. We are fortunate that we have the available resources to collaborate together without actually being together.

Because students learn from each other, it's critical to facilitate communication. I have been teaching a class on how to verify income using tax returns for the last couple of weeks. The students always end up collaborating at their tables to get the solution. I encourage this. By combining their respective experience and knowledge they all learn more.

If the right tools are used, I'm starting to think that there are only a few subjects left that can't be taught asynchronously online.

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