The importance and forms of cooperation in the online environment
The importance and forms of cooperation in the online environment
Participants will be presented with topics related to the importance and forms of cooperation in the online environment.
3. Social teaching forms
Social teaching forms are organizational forms of relationships between teachers and students, but also among students during learning and teaching. This defines the division of social activities among participants, as Pranjić (2005) states, whether a student works alone, with someone from the same bench or the same seminar group, and what their relationship is with the activities of the rest of the group. Therefore, we are talking about:
- individual learning
- partner learning
- group learning
- classroom learning – frontal teaching without real collaboration.
Below we provide an overview offered by Pranjić (2005):
Individual learning refers to those forms of work in which a student performs a task without the direct guidance of a teacher or other students. These tasks are time-limited and usually involve the application of learned knowledge, practice, and making one's own contribution to solving a question or problem.
| Advantages | Disadvantages |
|---|---|
| the student is active, works independently, learns by discovering | lack or complete lack of social relationships during learning |
| free from the feeling of strict organization and takes into account the differences in the working and learning styles of individual students (individualization) | |
| can follow and check the learning progress of an individual student | |
| teaching methods can vary and teacher can be take more time |
Partner learning (pair learning) involves two students who briefly, but equally and based on mutual connections, participate in solving a task. Suitable tasks are usually exercises, progress checks, and learning based on independent discovery with adequate aids.
| Advantages | Disadvantages |
|---|---|
| active students | possibility of dominance by one student |
| students free from the pressure of organized learning | possibility of role typification |
| creating an I-you relationship that enables the achievement of social learning goals |
Group learning involves three to five people working together. Group work is based on three phases: preparation, task performance, and summarization of results. In order to achieve this, specific didactic procedures are needed. First of all, the group, in cooperation with the teacher, must decide whether to work on the same task, on part of a more complex task, or on different tasks.
The advantages and disadvantages of such work are presented below.
| Advantages | Disadvantages |
|---|---|
| cooperative, free and productive engagement of groups | the possibility of transforming the division of roles into accepting the favorite function |
| the possibility of encouraging student behavior (cooperation, tolerance, maintaining rules, communicative competence, etc.) | social goals can be turned into their own opposite (prejudice, rejection of others, their exclusion, etc.) |
| observing differences in the learning and working styles of students in a group |
Background Colour
Font Face
Font Size
Text Colour
Font Kerning
Image Visibility
Letter Spacing
Line Height
Link Highlight