THE DIFFERENCE

BETWEEN

COPERATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE

We often use these words interchangeably, but they represent fundamentally different ways of contributing to a group and each comes with its own dynamics and power structures that shape groups in different ways …

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COOPERATIVE:

Is an instructional strategy that simultaneously addresses academic and social skill learning by students.

COLLABORATIVE:

Is commonly illustrated when groups of students work together to search for understanding, meaning, or solutions or to create an artifact or product of their learning. 

Cooperative and Collaborative Learning - What's the Difference?

Cooperative and collaborative learning are perhaps best viewed as being at different ends of a continuum where the main differences between them are who has the authority over knowledge and the power over the learning processes; to put it another way, the degree of control given to the learners by the faculty member.

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