e-Learning Ecologies MOOC’s Updates

Implementing collaborative intelligence in eLearning

I would like to outline some possibilities, where we can take advantage of collaborative intelligence in eLearning environments and which benefits can come along with it. Benefits for teaching as well as benefits regarding the amplification of a socially active and dynamic learning experience for students.

In the classical way of teaching in a classroom, there are no possibilities for students to interact with every one of each other, because it would be just noisy and no one could ever have the opportunity to take in the amount of information to conclude to the best collaborative outcome.

Now having the opprotunity of an eLearning environment, everyone can provide and recieve feedback not only from the teacher but also from every student in the class. Also as a student, you can select between different feedbacks and decide on your own, which one is the most valuable to advance and proceed with updating your work in order to get to the best result. The social dynamics evolve when taking serious feedback and valuing that create a situation, where you are much more likely to provide constuctive feedback yourself.

This creates an upcycling movement, where students are more engaged and expierence learning as a deeper fulfilling meaining in life. So that is, where you can actually talk about taking learning to a process, which accompanies any student the whole life-time and makes them hungry to stay learning, be courious and keep involving also in the learning processes of others.

The teacher's role will change her to being more aware of the environment, in which learning takes place, not enganging to the dominating extend, which it has in classical classroom activities nowadays. Creating an over-arching purpose, setting goals to get students moving into a basic direction and build knowledge themselves become the new tasks, teachers will have to accomplish.

What do you think about it? Let me know in the comments. Thanks a lot.

Marc van Treeck