Collaborative Learning: Methodology, Types of Interactions & Techniques

The ability to collaborate is becoming more and more important in today’s world in which tasks are getting more and more interdisciplinary and complicated to accomplish. It is, therefore, essential to prepare students on collaborative tasks while they are in school so that they can become competent team workers when they enter the workforce. Collaborative learning has the promise of active construction of knowledge, enhanced problem articulation and promotion for social interaction and has also been demonstrated to provide better outcomes than individual work in numerous studies. This new book gathers the latest research from around the globe in the study of collaborative learning and its application in early childhood education, pedagogical reasoning, undergraduate studies and computer research.