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Collaborative Writing Practices

for Cooperative Learning

Purpose

Academically

Adrift?

Seeking Effective

Collaboration?

Collaborative writing helps students overcome first person, single author inertia at the planning, revision, and editing stages of composition. Real-time collaborative invention allows individual learners to experience a wide range of approaches, styles, and strategies for achieving the goals of each assignment. As a tool for revision, collaborative writing helps students gain the ability to view their own writing from a third person perspective. When applied to editing, collaborative writing takes advantage of open source efficiency for discovering and fixing "bugs" or errors.

Beyond these practical or tactical strengths, collaborative writing exercises contribute to more cooperative, active, and student-centered learning in general. Standards, guidelines, and principles for learning tasks emerge from practical and cooperative work. Thus, the primary goals and theories of the course become shared pathways to success, rather than ideal prescriptions or rules that can never be fully attained.

Effective cooperative learning exercises are targeted to interrupt "rote" or primarily mimetic approaches to assignments and materials; to facilitate the development of real purposes and intrinsic value for learning objectives; and to situate learning goals in the context of professional community work.

Strategy

Collaborative

Writing Exercises

Find more on "Building Better Resumes" including

audio presentation and instruction sheet:

http://www.d.umn.edu/~adanders/betterresumes.html

Collaborative

Writing Processes

Discovering Purpose

Recognizing Opportunity

Decomposing the Task

Examples

Community

Focus & Feedback

Self-Analysis and Crowd Intelligence

Evaluation & Aggregation

Learning

http://www.d.umn.edu/~adanders/

Effective Design

Facilitates connections between

  • Pedagogical Goals
  • Technological Opportunities
  • Communities of Learners

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/01/18/study_finds_large_numbers_of_college_students_don_t_learn_much

Abram Anders

University of Minnesota Duluth

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/education/edlife/edl-17business-t.html

Values

adanders@d.umn.edu

http://backchan.nl/

http://docs.google.com/

http://twitter.com/AD_Anders

https://chimein.cla.umn.edu/

http://cw4cl.backchan.nl/

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