Collaborative learning: A learning tool advantages and disadvantages

Pages: 850-852
Neha Bishnoi (School of Education, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, Haryana)

Collaborative learning is a situation in which two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together. Unlike individual learning, people engaged in collaborative learning capitalize on one another’s resources and skills asking one another for information, evaluating one another’s ideas, monitoring one another’s work, etc. It is somewhat different from cooperative learning. In this paper the concept of collaborative learning has been discussed. The advantages and disadvantages of collaborative learning have also been discussed. The assumptions which underlie the learning process in collaborative learning have been also discussed.