PPEL – Self-paced learning versus Group-paced learning (Post 8)

Hi Marco!

Your arguments are good but we are hard to convince 🙂

You say that the teacher can help the learner who works in a group to become more active to successfully achieve the goals… in our view that is not specific from a group-based learning process. so we won’t consider it as an advantage 🙂

You mention that students might help other students without delaying the process… well they might not delay the process, in a structural way, but they are delaying themselves as they need to wait for other people to reach their level. they could go much further in their studies following only their own pace.

And when a student posts a comment or question in a forum, like moodle, it is definitely true that that question will be answered. However, studying alone, the student can use web 2.0 tools and use his connections and learn strategies to FIND the answer to that question. Isn’t this a sign of being more active and of independence development? Then, the student doesn’t need to follow the timings of others, but his own.

Ladies 🙂