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Definition:
An umbrella term for the variety of approaches and models in education that involve the shared intellectual efforts by students working in small groups to accomplish a goal or complete a task.
Additional Information:
Students are afforded opportunities to think for themselves and compare their thoughts with those of other students. Students work together to search for and develop understandings, meanings, and solutions or to conduct research projects. This approach is closely related to cooperative learning. One central difference between these two types of learning is that in collaborative learning the outcome is not dependent on each individual contributing to the whole. For further explanation:
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