COLLABORATIVE+LEARNING+-+BENEFITS

source: [] by Hari Srinivas



COLLABORATIVE LEARNING - BENEFITS


 * **44 Benefits of Collaborative Learning** ||  ||
 * || # Develops higher level thinking skills
 * 1) Promotes student-faculty interaction and familiarity
 * 2) Increases student retention
 * 3) Builds self esteem in students
 * 4) Enhances student satisfaction with the learning experience
 * 5) Promotes a positive attitude toward the subject matter
 * 6) Develops oral communication skills
 * 7) Develops social interaction skills
 * 8) Promotes positive race relations
 * 9) Creates an environment of active, involved, exploratory learning
 * 10) Uses a team approach to problem solving while maintaining individual accountability
 * 11) Encourages diversity understanding
 * 12) Encourages student responsibility for learning
 * 13) Involves students in developing curriculum and class procedures
 * 14) Students explore alternate problem solutions in a safe environment
 * 15) Stimulates critical thinking and helps students clarify ideas through discussion and debate
 * 16) Enhances self management skills
 * 17) Fits in well with the constructivist approach
 * 18) Establishs an atmosphere of cooperation and helping schoolwide
 * 19) Students develop responsibility for each other
 * 20) Builds more positive heterogeneous relationships
 * 21) Encourages alternate student assessment techniques
 * 22) Fosters and develops interpersonal relationships
 * 23) Modelling problem solving techniques by students' peers
 * 24) Students are taught how to criticize ideas, not people
 * 25) Sets high expectations for students and teachers
 * 26) Promotes higher achievement and class attendance.
 * 27) Students stay on task more and are less disruptive
 * 28) Greater ability of students to view situations from others' perspectives (development of empathy)
 * 29) Creates a stronger social support system
 * 30) Creates a more positive attitude toward teachers, principals and other school personnel by students and creates a more positive attitude by teachers toward their students
 * 31) Addresses learning style differences among students
 * 32) Promotes innovation in teaching and classroom techniques
 * 33) Classroom anxiety is significantly reduced
 * 34) Test anxiety is significantly reduced
 * 35) Classroom resembles real life social and employment situations
 * 36) Students practice modeling societal and work related roles
 * 37) CL is synergystic with writing across the curriculum
 * 38) CL activities can be used to personalize large lecture classes
 * 39) Skill building and practice can be enhanced and made less tedious through CL activities in and out of class.
 * 40) CL activities promote social and academic relationships well beyond the classroom and individual course
 * 41) CL processes create environments where students can practice building leadership skills.
 * 42) CL increases leadership skills of female students
 * 43) In colleges where students commute to school and do not remain on campus to participate in campus life activities, CL creates a community environment within the classroom. ||
 * 1) In colleges where students commute to school and do not remain on campus to participate in campus life activities, CL creates a community environment within the classroom. ||