Literature:-
Books
on Collaborative Learning
Jacques
D, 1991, Learning in Groups,
2nd edition, Kogan Page.
Book
aims to promote understanding of group methods and develop skills
for tutors and students. Areas covered include what is a group?
the place of leadership; developing a collaborative ethos; process
of communication; setting and structuring tasks; making learning
‘real’.
Johnson
DW and Johnson RT, 1994, Learning
Together and Alone : Cooperative, Competitive, and Individualistic
Learning, 4th ed, Allyn and Bacon, Boston. UNSW
library #: S371.102/61D
Covers
group work in education; individualized instruction; interaction
analysis in education; lesson planning.
Johnson
D and Johnson R, 1996, Meaningful
and Manageable Assessment through Cooperative Learning, Burgess
Publishing Company. (Available
through Amazon.com)
Kennedy
B, 1998, Students Working
in Teams - an Interdisciplinary Tertiary Teaching Resource, Graphic
Services, James Cook University. UNSW
library #: SQ378.176/3 (Note: some pages are missing)
Covers
teams for tertiary teachers; developing team skills; from group
to teams; establishing operational guidelines.
McKeachie
WJ, 1994, Teaching Tips
– Strategies, Research and Theory for College and University Teachers,
9th edition, DC Heath and Company, Massachusetts. See
Chapter 13 - Peer learning, collaborative learning, cooperative
learning.
Slavin
RE, 1990, Cooperative Learning:
Theory, Research and Practice, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice
Hall. UNSW
library #: SQ371.148/2
Developing
Group Skills
Scoufis
M, Integrating Graduate Attributes into the Undergraduate
Curricula, Centre for Academic Development and Flexible Learning,
University of Western Sydney, 2000 (ISBN: 1863418725). See
Chapter 5 – Developing your student’s group skills.
Gibbs
G, Learning in Teams – a Student Manual, The
Oxford Centre for Staff Development, Oxford Brookes University,
1995. (Not
in UNSW library, but Michele has a copy. Also, it can be purchased
from:
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/4_resource/books/ocsldbooks.html
)
Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Penn State University, USA (web site
accessed on 17/09/01)
·
A collaborative
learning bibliography, http://www.psu.edu/celt/clbib.html
·
When students
learn in groups, http://www.psu.edu/celt/newsletter/ID_March95.html
·
Collaborative
learning and teaching, http://www.psu.edu/celt/newsletter/ID_March94.html
Assessing
Group Work
The Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development,
Oxford Brookes University (accessed on 17/09/01)
·
Guidelines for
Student Groupwork/Teamwork, http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/2_learntch/groupwork.html
·
Assessing Student
Work – 2.6 Assessing Group Work, http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/firstwords/fw26.html
(In section “First words on assessment” under Learning and Teaching, http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/2_learntch/2_learnt.html)
Teaching and Learning Services, Lincoln University, New Zealand (accessed
on 17/09/01)
·
Guide to Best
Practice – Group work, http://learn.lincoln.ac.nz/groupwork
·
Assessing group
work, http://learn.lincoln.ac.nz/groupwork/assessment/assessment.htm
(site last accessed on 17/09/01)
·
Peer assessment,
http://learn.lincoln.ac.nz/groupwork/assessment/peer_assessment.htm
Collaborative
Learning Online
Agostinho
S, Lefoe G and Hedberg J, Online
collaboration for learning: a case study of a post-graduate university
course, http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/proceedings/agostinho/paper.html
(accessed on 18/09/01)
Dillenbourg
P and Schneider D, Collaborative
learning and the Internet, http://tecfa.unige.ch/tecfa/research/CMC/colla/iccai95_1.html
(accessed on 18/09/01) Note
that the readings used in the collaborative activities included
in the ITET Fellowship group-topic workshop on 18/09/01 came from
this article.
Goeller
KE, Web-based collaborative
learning: a perspective on the future, http://www7.scu.edu.au/programme/posters/1940/com1940.htm
(accessed on 18/09/01)
Spector
JM, Teachers as designers
of collaborative distance learning, http://www.eist.uib.no/Papers/site-99.htm
(accessed on 18/09/01)
Ted’s cooperative learning and WAC (writing across
the curriculum) web site, (accessed on 18/09/01) http://home.capecod.net/~tpanitz/
Wilson Web Databases, http://vweb.hwwilsonweb.com/cgi-bin/webspirs.cgi.
Select database “OmniFile Full Text Mega”, and use “Search
Plus” to find the following full-text articles (accessed on 17/09/01):
·
Gamson ZF, Collaborative
learning comes of age, Change
v2, p44-9, S/O 1994
·
Sanchez B, Harris
J, Online mentoring: a success story, Learning and Leading with Technology, v23 p57-60, May 1996.
·
Warschauer M,
Computer-mediated collaborative learning: theory and practice, The Modern Language Journal, v81, p470-81,
Winter 1997.
·
Ewing JM, Dowling
JD and Coutts N, Learning using the World Wide Web: A collaborative
learning event, Journal
of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 8, p13-22, 1999.
·
Warf B, Vincent
P and Purcell D, International collaborative learning on the World
Wide Web, Journal of Geography,
98, no3, p141-8, My/Ju 1999.
·
Tschannen-Moran
M and Woolfolk Hoy A, Collaborative learning: a memorable model,
The Teacher Educator, 36 no2 p148-65, Aut
2000.
