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Using Collaborative Learning to Elevate Students’ Educational Experiences

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Collaborative learning is an educational environment where students work together in smaller groups to achieve a common goal. Collaborative learning is analogous to the traditional learning model, in which teachers impact knowledge on students.

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Using Collaborative Learning to Elevate Students’ Educational Experiences

Faculty Focus

Collaborative learning is an educational environment where students work together in smaller groups to achieve a common goal. Collaborative learning is analogous to the traditional learning model, in which teachers impact knowledge on students.

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Get Wild! Gamification Creates Immersive, On-Demand Faculty Development 

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Heather Young Mandujano , Cuyahoga Community College Rebecca Wiggins , Cuyahoga Community College Key Statement: Learn how to use game elements and strategies to build immersive, on-demand learning experiences that are as entertaining as they are effective. Describe one or two things that make games interesting for you. Persico, D.,

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Why Students Living on Campus Take Online Courses

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In terms of learning, they’re not [missing out]. This comes back to 20 years of faculty development where basically we know that, if a professor teaches an online course, they have to go through 80 hours of training to learn to teach online. What we know is active and collaborative learning works.

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

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Thus, the mind map’s value could be enhanced by having students compare and discuss their mind maps, and by asking them to do the metacognitive work of observing and articulating their own learning progress. This additional layer of analysis revealed that mind maps used in this way encourage a new depth of student learning.

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

Thus, the mind map’s value could be enhanced by having students compare and discuss their mind maps, and by asking them to do the metacognitive work of observing and articulating their own learning progress. This additional layer of analysis revealed that mind maps used in this way encourage a new depth of student learning.

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The Administration of a Higher Education Faculty Online Learning Community

Faculty Focus

Another benefit of an Online Learning Community is the mentoring provided to faculty that can improve teaching methods and strategies (Zhadko & Ko, 2023). As a result, the university’s online faculty are well prepared to provide the institution’s unique signature academic experience for its online students. Education Today.