"In the working world, many employers do expect their employees to solve problems in teams.
It only makes sense that multiple minds are better than one. Therefore, I believe instructors who have
their students work in teams better prepare them for the working world."
~Brian Goff, RIT Student
Collaborative learning occurs when students are working together on a common goal for mutual benefit. Collaboration online takes place using a variety of tools which create meeting spaces for students and opens up possibilities for those students to learn wherever they are as they participate in discussions, share ideas and information for assignments and projects as well as offering and receiving feedback and solutions.
Collaboration online may be done in two ways: Synchronously where students work together in real-time or Asynchronously where collaboration takes place over a longer period of time with each member contributing to the group at different times.
Engaging in both types fosters the development of a number of skills such as critical thinking, communication, listening and respecting the ideas, views and opinions of each other as well as problem solving skills. These are skills which can be taken beyond the classroom into the workplace.
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