3. Digitally enhanced collaborative learning settings

Collaborative learning, as an umbrella term, includes a variety of settings, approaches, activities that foster engagement, active participation and intellectual effort of students. In collaborative learning, the students work in groups of two or more. They search 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.” (Smith & MacGregor, 1992)
There are many ways to design digitally enhanced collaborative learning settings. In the following, three possibilities are presented to implement this collaborative learning approach.

Note: ”Learning settings means the diverse physical, online, blended, virtual and digital locations, contexts, and cultures in which people learn, encompassing all settings in which formal, non-formal and informal learning can occur.” (Bideau & Kearns, 2022)