Austin, R, Quirke-Bolt, N, Smyth, J, Rickard, A, Metcalfe, N and Mallon, Marie (2007) Dissolving Boundaries through Technology in Education: Collaborative Learning between schools. Department of Education Northern Ireland, Department for Education and Science, Ireland. 1 pp. [Research report (external)]
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This year’s Dissolving Boundaries research report focuses on teachers’ attitudes to collaboration and explores how successful collaboration occurs between partner schools. The literature on teachers’ conceptions of the purpose and nature of collaboration and the different levels of interaction in collaborative working arrangement is reviewed. We also examine the instruments that have been used to measure success of collaborative learning.While a consensus exists about the benefits of collaborative learning and much has been written on teachers’ perception of the changing role they occupy in such an environment, little is available on teachers’ conceptions of the nature, purpose and levels of interactionthat occur in collaborative learning environments, particularly among younger learners. We argue that it is not sufficient to assume that a teachers’ change of role to facilitation will provide a strong enough framework to ensure that class work moves beyond ‘shallow constructivism’. Our research focuses on teachers’ understanding of collaborative learning resulting from their experience in the Dissolving Boundaries programme.
|Item Type:||Research report (external)|
|Keywords:||Collaborative learning Teachers' perceptions ICT Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland|
|Faculties and Schools:||Faculty of Social Sciences|
Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education
|Research Institutes and Groups:||Institute for Research in Social Sciences|
Institute for Research in Social Sciences > Education
|Deposited By:||Prof Roger Austin|
|Deposited On:||20 Apr 2010 09:53|
|Last Modified:||11 Sep 2014 12:47|
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