Good online learning – group work
Martin Weller,
The Ed Techie,
Apr 01, 2022
Martin Weller argues that good online group work "is completely achievable, and will give all the same benefits you would gain from face to face group work, therefore it should be implemented for the same reasons." My own experience is that it is in many respects better. You don't get a lot of the posturing (and preening, and negging) that you get in real-world groupwork. People are more able to participate on their own terms, and it's harder to bully them into compliance. And when working online they have direct access to other resources, backchannels, tools, and all the other affordances of digital cooperation. Weller offers some cautionary notes - for example, that it can take longer to do some things online, it sometimes requires more planning, and 'retention' might be a bit lower.
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