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“Collaborative learning is an umbrella term for a variety of educational approaches involving joint intellectual effort by students, or students and teachers together. Usually students are working in groups of two or more, mutually searching for understanding, solutions or meanings, or creating a product. 

Collaborative learning activities vary widely, but most center on students’ exploration or application of the course material, not simply the teacher’s presentation or explication of it”.

The benefits of collaborative learning:

• Development of higher-level thinking, oral communication, self-management, and leadership skills.
• Promotion of student-faculty interaction.
• Increase in student retention, self-esteem, and responsibility.
• Exposure to and an increase in understanding of diverse perspectives.

A flipped classroom is an instructional strategy and a type of blended learning that reverses the traditional learning environment by delivering instructional content, often online, outside of the classroom.

Flipped Learning shifts the classroom from passive to active learning, focusing on higher order thinking skills such as evaluating, analyzing, and creating to engage students in learning. The approach relies on understanding the difference between information and knowledge acquisition, providing students with active learning possibilities.

Students are given opportunities to take greater responsibility for their own learning. Class time focuses more on exploration, finding meaning and application of knowledge. Teaching is focused more on providing significant learning opportunities, providing feedback through a variety of pedagogical strategies and ensuring understanding

The benefits of flipped learning:

• More one-to-one time between teacher and student more one-to-one time between teacher and student
• More collaboration time for students
• Students learn at their own pace
• It encourages students to come to class prepared
• Practical things – like missing class due to illness – become less problematic
• Subject matter content becomes infinitely richer
• It’s cost-effective!

Role play in the classroom is a form of instruction in which you have students take the part of someone else so that they can understand a situation from a different perspective than they normally would.

The benefits of Role Play learning:
● It’s Social and Communal
● Prepares for Real Life
● Indicates Current Skill Level

Think-Pair-Share (TPS) is a collaborative learning strategy in which students work together to solve a problem or answer a question about an assigned reading. This technique requires students to (1) think individually about a topic or answer to a question; and (2) share ideas with classmates. Discussing an answer with a partner serves to maximize participation, focus attention and engage students in comprehending the reading material.

Benefits:

• The Think-Pair-Share strategy is a versatile and simple technique for improving students’ reading comprehension.
• It gives students time to think about an answer and activates prior knowledge.
• TPS enhances students’ oral communication skills as they discuss their ideas with one another.
• This strategy helps students become active participants in learning and can include writing as a way of organizing thoughts generated from discussions.

This method is learner-centered with intense interaction between participants as they build their knowledge and work together as a group to examine the case

The instructor’s role is to facilitate the students collaboratively analyze and address problems and resolve questions.

The benefits of Case Based learning:

• More focusing on learning objectives
• Flexibility on the use of the case,
• Ability to induce a deeper level of learning

Cooperative learning is the process of breaking a classroom of students into small groups so they can discover a new concept together and help each other learn. The core element of cooperative learning is to showcase the positive effects of interdependence while underlining the importance of personal responsibility.
This happens naturally in cooperative learning since students work with one another, but they all have a different task to accomplish or concept to explain.

5 Elements of cooperative learning
● Positive interdependence
● Face-to-face interaction
● Individual and group accountability
● Interpersonal and small group skills
● Group processing
The benefits of Cooperative learning:
● Higher achievement.
● Increased retention.
● More positive relationships and a wider circle of friends.
● Greater intrinsic motivation.
● Higher self-esteem.
● Greater social support.
● More on-task behavior.
● Better attitudes toward teachers

Game based learning (GBL) is a type of game play that has defined learning outcomes. Generally, game based learning is designed to balance subject matter with gameplay and the ability of the player to retain and apply said subject matter to the real world.
The benefits of Game-based learning:
● Increases Child’s Memory Capacity.
● Computer & Simulation Fluency.
● Helps With Fast Strategic Thinking & Problem-Solving.
● Develops Hand-Eye Coordination.
● Specifically For Children with Attention Disorders.
● Skill-Building.

Learning by doing refers to a theory of education expounded by American philosopher John Dewey. It’s a hands-on approach to learning, meaning students must interact with their environment in order to adapt and learn.

The benefits of Learning by doing:
● Experiential learning is engaging and sticks
● Experiential learning is personal
● Experiential learning is community-connected
● Experiential learning builds success skills.
● Experiential learning is integrated

Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging, and complex question, problem, or challenge.

The benefits of Project-Based Learning:
● Collaboration
● Problem Solving
● Creativity
● In-Depth Understanding
● Self-Confidence
● Critical Thinking
● Project Management
● Curiosity
● Empowerment

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