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Building collaborations between university pre-service student-teachers and English language students through a socially mediated network.
Building online communities in higher education institutions: Creating collaborative experience. (2014)
  • Dustin De Felice, Michigan State University
Abstract

Cooperative learning has evolved over the years to include computer-supported elements within traditional and virtual classrooms. In this chapter, we discuss a collaboration that used computer supported collaborative learning through a socially mediated network. This collaboration served as a bridge between two universities from different countries. Not only did this collaboration link the students from each university together, but it provided language learners and pre-service student-teachers with the ability to benefit from the unique connection between them (i.e. students needing to learn language and teachers needing to practice teaching a language). We discuss the collaboration, the framework, and the format of this collaborative project. Much of this discussion is rooted in the experiences of some of the students who participated in its evolution with the intent to provide a direction for implementing such a type of collaboration in other institutions.

Publication Date
2014
Editor
Carolyn Stevenson & Joanna Bauer
Publisher
IGI Global
Citation Information
Dustin De Felice. "Building collaborations between university pre-service student-teachers and English language students through a socially mediated network." Building online communities in higher education institutions: Creating collaborative experience. (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dustindefelice/7/