title: Collaborative online learning: Issues in online facilitation
creator: Kaur , Harvinder
creator: Kaur , Kuldip
subject: LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
description: Collaborative online learning has the potential to enhance learners’ ability to learn and to  construct knowledge in ways that they cannot do on their own. However, this cannot happen  without the support of quality online facilitation by tutors and peers. This paper explores issues  related to effective online facilitation within a distance learning environment at Open University  Malaysia (OUM). The data cited here were taken from discussion groups for an OUM course  called Learning Skills for Open and Distance Learners. Some of the issues discussed here are the  nature of tutor intervention, the presence or absence of peer facilitation and the online task. The  paper also provides recommendations that may guide the design of tasks for online discussion,  and as strategies that may be employed in promoting collaborative online learning. (Author's abstract)
date: 2005-09-19
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/52/1/Collaborative_online_learning.pdf
identifier:   Kaur , Harvinder and Kaur , Kuldip  (2005) Collaborative online learning: Issues in online facilitation.  In: ICDE International Conference, November 19 - 23, 2005, New Delhi, India.     
relation: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/52/