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"Is an umbrella term for a variety of approaches in education that involve joint intellectual effort by students, or students and teachers together."
Collaborative learning refers to methodologies and environments in which learners engage in a commong task in which each individual depends on and is accountable to each other.
More information can be found at
http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu/pdf/collab.pdf
"Collaborative learning is a situation in which two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together. More specifically, collaborative learning is based on the model that knowledge can be created within a population where members actively interact by sharing experiences and take on asymmetry roles."
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_learning
"The concept of collaborative learning, the grouping and pairing of learners for the purpose of achieving a learning goal, has been widely researched and advocated - the term "collaborative learning" refers to an instruction method in which learners at various performance levels work together in small groups toward a common goal."
see http://www.gdrc.org/kmgmt/c-learn/index.html