Collaborate to Learn and Learn to Collaborate

Le, T.

Collaborative learning is in contrast to the competitive process usually seen in a classroom. It is argued here that the Web can be used constructively to create a collaborative learning discourse. A case study was conducted to examine how the use of the Web could enable students and teachers to work collaboratively in a university context. This paper examines the notion of collaborative learning in a learner-centred curriculum, the role of the Web in collaborative learning, and finally what the case study reveals to us about creating a collaborative learning environment with the use of the Web.

Cite as: Le, T. (2002). Collaborate to Learn and Learn to Collaborate. In Proc. WCCE2001 Australian Topics: Selected Papers from the Seventh World Conference on Computers in Education, Copenhagen, Denmark. CRPIT, 8. McDougall, A., Murnane, J. and Chambers, D., Eds. ACS. 67-70.

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