| Select the Right
Technologies
for Collaborative Learning
The academic world has known for many years
that people often learn better in groups than alone. No individual
in a group knows everything, but each person knows something.
Together, the group knows more than the members do individually.
Sharing this knowledge makes everyone smarter.
Collaborative learning in the workplace
is often called something else. Other terms include “cooperative
learning,” “social learning,” “organizational
learning,” “participative learning,” “networked
learning,” and “collaborative networked learning.”
Each of these terms maintains its own nuances, with minor
differences, but they all include collaboration and learning
at the core.
A new set of Internet technologies, known
as Web 2.0, is having a major impact on furthering computer
supported collaborative learning. The technologies specifically
being designed for learning, sometimes referred to as E-learning
2.0, are transforming learning as a classroom phenomenon to
something that takes place at any time and any location. Blogs,
wikis, social bookmarking, social networking, and peer-to-peer
technologies are all potentially part of computer supported
coolaborative learning.
Written by Dr.
Gary Woodill, Director of Research and Analysis for Brandon
Hall Research and the author of the groundbreaking Emerging
E-learning series of reports, "Computer Supported
Collaborative Learning in Education and Training: Tools and
Technologies," provides survey of tools and
technologies that can be used to support collaborative learning
in training and development.
This report examines:
- Environments for Collaborative
Learning
- Shared Computer Resources
in Classrooms and Workplaces
- Online Collaborative Workspaces
- Web Conferencing Software with Collaboration
Features
- Knowledge Collectives
- Collective Immersive Environments
- Collaborative Augmented Reality
- Networks for Collaborative Learning
- Personal and FOAF Networks
- Group Forming Networks
- Social Mobile Networks
- Peer Sharing and Production Networks
- Community Computing Grids
- Self-Organizing Mesh Networks
- Tools for Collaborative Learning
- Communications Tools
- Collaborative Process Tools
- Presence Tools
- Social Markup Tools - Annotation, Bookmarking, and
Rating
- Project and Team Management Software
- Community Management Tools
Introducing collaborative learning to your
organization is a low-cost, but very effective, way to get
better results from your training initiatives. This new report
provides the information you need to select the right types
of technologies to enable collaborative learning.
This report is also available through a membership to the Brandon
Hall Research Library.
ALL REPORTS IN THIS SERIES:
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