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Scholarship March 29, 2017

“Emerging Models of Online Collaborative Learning: Can Distance Enhance Quality?”

The Wabash Center

Author
Ehrmann, Stephen C., and Collins, Mauri
Publisher
The Teaching, Learning and Technology Group (2001) http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/Collab_Distance.html
Argues that online collaboration among students does not need to follow the same forms as traditional interaction in face-to-face classrooms. Reviews pioneering and imaginative ways of helping students learn with one another in virtual space – ways that multiply the advantages of extended access with the strengths of enriched learning environments.