All of CTE's fully facilitated courses incorporate advanced
cooperative learning strategies to enhance learning experiences
and outcomes. In online courses, teaming allows students
to feel connected to one another and offers a sense of partnership
to the learning process. In fact, research confirms that
students working online in groups perform better than students
working online alone.
Team-based
learning builds also adds an entire dimension of potential
knowledge to an online course experience. Especially for
adult learners, who often enter an online course with considerable
knowledge accumulated through education, work, and life
experience, team-based learning provides ways for students
to share these experiences and to learn from one another's
knowledge, as well as from the instructor and course materials.
Additionally, many students feel that the relationships
they forge in their groups become an invaluable professional
resource long after their course has completed.
