This document discusses balancing individual and group work for students. It presents a scenario where a teacher has to assign a task but some students prefer individual work while others prefer groups. The document then proposes using an online wiki to unite individual and collective work, allowing students cooperative freedom to work together or separately as they choose. It concludes by asking students their opinion of using a wiki, and a student responds positively.

1. Cooperative FreedomBy Juliana AntunesPresentation developed for the discipline of PPEL - Unit 1 - task 2 of the Mestrado de Pedagogia do E-learning – UniversidadeAberta - Portugal

2. Imagine this situation:

3. This teacher has a job to giving your students

4. It is uncertain whether the task will be individual or group?

5. If he chooses individual work, part of the class will be unhappy and unmotivated.They prefer to work in groups because they share ideas and share the work.

6. Or if he chooses to work in groups, another part of the students will be unmotivatedThey prefer individual work because they want freedom to customize the work and manage their business needs, time and place ...

7. As the teacher be able to balance this situation????

8. Cooperative FreedomThrough the Internet, is possible create a way to unite individual and collective freedom.

9. I will start a project of online education with my students!!!!

10. I propose we create a wiki ... What do you think?? Good idea Professor !

11. a little later ... WWW

12. ReferencesPaulsen, M.F. (2003), Part One: Online Education, Teaching and Learning, Cooperative Freedom: An Online Education Theory (p. 39 – 50)Paulsen, M. (2008), Cooperative Online Education.