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Benefits of collaborative learning

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences· 2012-01-01· other· 1,104 citationsdiamond

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Abstract

Collaborative learning is an educational approach to teaching and learning that involves groups of learners working together to solve a problem, complete a task, or create a product. This review article outlines benefits of learning in collaboration style, begins with the concept of the term and continues with the advantages created by collaborative methods. This paper sets out major benefits of collaborative learning into four categories of; social, psychological, academic, and assessment benefits. Each of them is further subdivided to more specific themes.

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Marjan Laal, Seyed Mohammad Ghodsi (2012). Benefits of collaborative learning. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.12.091

@article{marjan2012benefits,
  title  = {Benefits of collaborative learning},
  author = {Laal, Marjan and Ghodsi, Seyed Mohammad},
  year   = {2012},
  journal = {Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences},
  doi    = {10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.12.091}
}

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