Fig. 5 Collaborative learning of students

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING THEORY (VYGOTSKY, 1978)

Leo Vygotsky, a Russian psychologist and the father of Social Learning, argued that learning with peers helps us more because we also learn new things from each other. This constructs an environment that we call “active learning communities”. Vygotsky stated that learning comes from our interaction and communication with other people, whether it may be a learning environment with teachers and experts or fellow researchers and students.

Collaborative learning creates an environment full of discussion, group work, and feedback. These promote the development of students through the following skills:

1) Communication skills 2) Interpersonal skills 3) Knowledge sharing 4) Reasoning 5) Thinking

Learning cannot and should not be separated from the social context. By applying this in an architectural sense, we can control how the distribution of knowledge in the social context, among students and researchers, can always be equal. As learning always occur in real life, the student-student and student-expert way of learning is particularly helpful in real world problems or tasks. This theory alone contributes to a great impact in the scientific sector of our country.

Fig. 5 Collaborative learning of students