We would like to give special thanks to veterinary practitioners, Manel Beneria, Joan Jordana, Javier Larrán, Antoni Margalida, Josep Maria Moner, and Joan Plana, as well as veterinary students, for collaborating and participating in field work.
Online file collaboration and sharing (e.g., the institutional version of Google Docs) and social networking technologies (e.g., Facebook) are the top SMTs students reported using for collaborating in their university learning.
Ah! The wonderful sound of clanging medals, young voices cheering, and the slapping of high fives -- it's the sound of students being rewarded for collaborating and utilizing their science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills.
Instead of searching, teachers should be able to spend their time selecting the best materials, refining it for their students, and collaborating with other teachers.
Some college institutions, such as the University of California at Berkeley and Arizona State University, are leading the charge by creating makerspaces on campus for students to collaborate, but other learning institutions need to follow to prepare students for tomorrow's innovation.
By making it easy for students to collaborate around learning, Piazza has resonated with younger generations and has found steady adoption as a result.
She elaborated on this to note that she was, "excited them and gave them a purpose and a reason to do it [the unit]." Ralph offered that this was a great way for students to collaborate with one another.
However, the more a CSCL practice differs from traditional teaching and learning experiences, the more difficult it may be for students to collaborate efficiently.
Questions 12 and 13 sought to assess the extent to which the project created opportunities for students to collaborate on the construction of understanding.
With regard to whether students perceived development of critical-thinking skills related to synthesis and analysis (questions 10 and 11), both median and mode were 4. The median and mode equaled or exceeded 4 for questions 12 and 13, which addressed the extent to which the project created opportunities for students to collaborate on the construction of understanding.
This "social" model provides an alternative, and this is now aided by the development of new methods of information and communications technology (ICT) that allow not only educational resource production and delivery to occur outside the institutional setting, but also a new way for "students" to collaborate in the learning process with their "teachers" [ 5].
