Collaborative learning involves students working together in groups to solve problems, complete tasks, or create a product. It positions the teacher as a facilitator rather than expert transmitter of knowledge. Students work as a team to master materials, with rewards based on group performance. Collaborative learning develops problem-solving, critical thinking, social and communication skills while promoting diversity and self-management. It fosters intellectual and social involvement as well as teamwork, leadership and positive attitudes.

1. COLLABORATIVE LEARNING APPROACH
Dr.FEMILA PANGAT

2. Meaning
• “Collaborative learning” is an umbrella term for a
variety of educational approaches involving joint
intellectual effort by students, or students and
teachers together.
• Usually, students are working in groups of two or
more, mutually searching for understanding,
solutions, or meanings, or creating a product.
• Collaborative learning activities vary widely, but
most center on students’ exploration or
application of the course material, not simply the
teacher’s presentation or explication of it.

3. In collaborative classrooms, the lecturing/
listening/note-taking process may not
disappear entirely, but it lives alongside
other processes that are based in students’
discussion and active work with the course
material.
Teachers who use collaborative learning
approaches tend to think of themselves less
as expert transmitters of knowledge to
students, and more as expert designers of
intellectual experiences for students-as
coaches or mid-wives of a more emergent
learning process.

4.  Collaborative learning puts students
together to work in heterogeneous
groups. All perspectives of all learners
are utilized for enriching learning; all are
seen as equal contributors,
collaborating to achieve a mutual goal.
Collaborative consultation encourages
shared responsibility in planning and
decision making.
 The focus on the collective knowledge
and thinking of the group changes the
roles of students and teachers and the
way they interact in the classroom.

5. Definition
“Collaborative learning is an educational
approach to teaching and learning that
involves groups of learners work together
to solve a problem, to complete a task
and/ or create a product.”

9. Essential features of Collaborative
Learning
• 1. A group learning task is designed based on
shared learning goals and outcomes
• 2. Students work in teams to master academic
materials
• 3. Reward systems are group oriented than
individual oriented
• 4. Co-operative behaviour involves trust building
activities, joint planning and understanding of
• team support.
• 5. Students involvement in learning activities are
more
• 6. Encourages students to acquire an active voice

10. steps
• Problem
• Formation Of Groups
• Sharing Of Ideas
• Teacher Facilitates And Learning
Evidence
• Feedback

12. ADVANTAGES
• Enhances Problem-solving Skills
• Inspires Critical Thinking
• Improves Social Interactions and Supports
Diversity
• Aid the Development of Self-management Skills
• Development of Oral Communication Skills
• Fosters the Development of Interpersonal
Relationships

13. ADVANTAGES
• Promotes social and intellectual involvement
• Cultivation of teamwork, community building,
and leadership skills
• Enhanced student satisfaction and promoting
positive attitudes
• Open expression of ideas in groups
• Patience in hearing others
• Team building
• Shared responsibility