Collaboration
In a virtual learning commons, collaboration can take place 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The collaborative process for this page will be established in the next few months.
Some reasons why the Library and Learning Center supports collaboration:
- Develops higher level thinking skills
- Promotes student-faculty interaction and familiarity
- Increases student retention
- Builds self esteem in students
- Enhances student satisfaction with the learning experience
- Promotes a positive attitude toward the subject matter
- Develops oral communication skills
- Develops social interaction skills
- Creates an environment of active, involved, exploratory learning
- Uses a team approach to problem solving while maintaining individual accountability
- Encourages diversity understanding
- Encourages student responsibility for learning
- Involves students in developing curriculum and class procedures
- Students explore alternate problem solutions in a safe environment
- Stimulates critical thinking and helps students clarify ideas through discussion and debate
- Enhances self management skills
- Establishes an atmosphere of cooperation and helping schoolwide
- Students develop responsibility for each other
- Builds more positive heterogeneous relationships
- Encourages alternate student assessment techniques
- Fosters and develops interpersonal relationships
- Modelling problem solving techniques by students' peers
- Students are taught how to criticize ideas, not people
- Sets high expectations for students and teachers
- Greater ability of students to view situations from others' perspectives (development of empathy)