Abstract

​Some words for abstract.(we can modify) **New way of learning:Learning through Collaboration** The advent of Internet and the world wide web has enabled us reach a new frontier of learning, e-learning. Learning collaboratively with the students. we focus on effective learning within collaborative and constructivist learning environment, which sustains, enhances and facilitates collaborative learning. Knowledge is socially constructed. The opportunities for dialogue within this learning environment is a major factor for developing interpersonal relationships. Knowledge construction is perceived as a dialectic process in which individuals test their constructed views on others and negotiate their ideas and meaning and come to comon undestanding.

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 * Misread what you write and though you wanted someone to finish the abstract (which I read to be 250 words) so did this speil. Sorry! Use what you will. I do think we need to link to where we started which is the Key Competencies…. **


 * Bron. **

In New Zealand, teachers are charged with the responsibility of developing the key competencies (Managing Self, Relating to Others, Participating and Contributing, Thinking and Using Language symbols and texts) within each student. The Ministry of Education (2007) clearly states that these competencies continue to develop over time and are //“//shaped by interactions with people, places, ideas, and things” and that students “need to be challenged to develop their competencies in contexts that are increasingly wide-ranging and complex.” The Ministry of Education (2006) believes that e-learning can “contribute to the growth of all of these competencies, and increasingly, these competencies be applied in ICT-rich contexts for all students.”
 * The Next Paradigm of e-learning: Learning through Collaboration **

Contemporary socio-cultural theories of learning emphasize that various social and cultural factors should, especially, be taken into account in explaining learning and developing new pedagogical approaches (In Bruner, 1996; Lave & Wenger, 1991; Vygotsky, 1978) Learning is not just a cognitive issue but also a matter of participating in cultural practices (Sfard, 1998) and creating new knowledge and ideas of value to a community (Paavola & Hakkarainen, 2005; Scardamalia Bereiter, 2003). **(this paragraph is from** ** The pedagogical design of technology enhanced collaborative learning article (on the reading links page and needs to be referenced properly .) ** Modern information and communication technology enables new ways of supporting these socio-cultural theories of learning, and so how can e-learning facilitate collaboration and indirectly begin to address the key competencies?

In this Student Led Seminar we seek to guide students through the a collaborative learning experience which will enable them to investigate the possibilities and challenges that ICT has brought to learning, collaboration, and working with knowledge. The students will critically reflect upon several frameworks for facilitating quality collaborative and co-operative experiences in both an online environment and a blended learning environment, identify the common threads of the frameworks, propose and establish the key features for designing quality collaboration experiences. References Ministry of Education. (2006). //21st Centruy Learner - An e-learning Action Plan for Schools//. Wellington: Learning Media Limited. Ministry of Education. (2007). //The New Zealand Curriculum//. Wellington: Ministry of Education.