This document discusses the benefits of collaboration over individual work. It defines collaboration as individuals working together for a common purpose to achieve business benefits. Some key benefits discussed include: - Collaboration allows people to achieve more by combining their skills and resources. - Effective collaborative groups require full participation from all members, open communication, and trust between participants. - Cooperative learning helps develop leadership, communication, conflict resolution and other skills. However, it also presents challenges like avoiding failure and ensuring diversity of skills. - Techniques like Jigsaw and Think-Pair-Share can help structure collaborative work, with Jigsaw having groups assemble pieces of an assignment together.

1. TWO BRAINS ARE BETTER
THAN ONE

2. What is collaboration in your opinion?
• Collaboration is a working practice whereby individuals work together
for a common purpose to achieve business benefit.
• Collaboration enables individuals to work together to achieve a
defined and common purpose.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnkKHL_dyGE 4 min

3. Task
• Do the task individually
• Do the same task in group

4. TEAM WORK
• Only in this way the success of groups be provided.

5. Positive Interdependence
• Positive interdependence is the belief of anyone in the group that
there is value in working together and that the results of both
individual learning and working products would be better when they
are done in collaboration

6. Face-to-face promotive interaction
• This means that students promote each other's success by sharing
resources.
• They help, support, encourage, and praise each other's efforts to
learn.
• Both academic and personal support are part of this mutual goal

7. Individual and group accountability
• The group is accountable for achieving its goals, and each member
must be accountable for contributing a fair share of the work toward
the group goal.
• No one can "hitchhike" on the work of others.
• The performance of each individual must be assessed and the results
given back to the group

8. Elements of Effective Groups
• Although team dynamics (how the individual
team members work together) can differ
from team to team, effective teams share the
following characteristics:
• Full participation –
• All team members contribute their time and
energy to the project.
• More importantly, all team members
participate in the decision making process.

9. Elements Cont…..
• Trust - Members trust that each member will
add value to the project, and members work
to ensure that everybody contributes and
that appreciation is expressed for different
contributions.
• Open communication - Communication is the
glue that holds a team together.
Communication is effective when all
members:

10. Advantages of Cooperative Learning
• Gaining leadership and decision-
making skills. ...
• Acquiring conflict management skills.
...
• Increases employee work
engagement. ...
• Enhancing communication skills. ...
• Personal responsibility. ...
• Gaining confidence. ...
• Positive attitude towards colleagues.

11. Disadvantages of Cooperative Learning
• Lack of Social Skills. ...
• Group Grades. ...
• Lack of Diversity Skills. ...
• Avoidance of Failure. ...
• Between Team Competition. ...
• Within Class Tracking. ...
• Complex Co-op Lessons. ...
• Special Materials

12. Jigsaw
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euhtXUgBEts 6 min

13. • The jigsaw technique is a method of organizing classroom activity that
makes students dependent on each other to succeed.
• It breaks classes into groups that each assemble a piece of an
assignment and synthesize their work when finished

14. Techniques of Cooperative Learning
• THINK-PAIR-SHARE -Pair up -Discuss -Share
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW87rihT38I 1:35

15. Allegory of long spoons
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4lI8e33U2A