TBF014 – Collaborative Learning! Fun for everyone!

In this episode we take a look at five different collaborative learning techniques and how you can use them in your learning events.  We also have a peak at a few social media platforms and how your learners, and yourself can use them to enhance their learning experience.

The Jigsaw learning technique is a great way to increase the engagement of your learners, whether they're kids or adults.  Split everyone into groups of 5-ish, have them learn something, put them into a second set of groups where each of the original groups is represented and then have teach each other what they learners.  It awesome!

Debates!  Make sure your learners have a chance to prepare the material before thrusting them into a debate scenario.  Otherwise you'll miss out on much more impactful learning. Plus, it's rude.  Don't do it.

Blogging is a great way for learners to collaborate in a non-classroom setting. Also a great way to collaborate on a developing project from a distance.  There's a few free optio