4.7.4 Online collaboration experience

A reflect on the collaborative process I experienced in this lesson 4.7.

I found collaboration to be good during this lesson. It helped me to move on where I was lagging behind. In fact collaboration makes the course move because it has the element of peer assessment where one fears to miss the marks from the fellow learners.

The unique challenges of collaborating online.

The challenges of online collaboration are that some members are too slow and it makes the ‘speed merchants’ demoralized.

Some members read their fellow learners’ contribution late when other groups have already moved on.

Sometimes the Internet is intermittent in some hours of the day, yet it might be the only limited space of time outside classroom hours at the work place. 

I intend to use the following resources in my classroom which I discovered and I will adapt to them when needs arises:

·         http://www.nothingbeatstherealthing.info/resources-guide

·         http://www.teachingcopyright.org

·        https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/25308415/Legal%20Aspects%20of%20OER

·         https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/services/copyrigh

          

·         http://www.copyright.com/learn/media-downloads/