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For collaborative learning to be efective, there should be both "group goals" and "individual accountability" (Slavin, 1989). Tis means that the collaborative learning task must ensure that every group member has learnt something. Ideally, a collaborative learning task would allow for each member to be responsible for some concept necessary to complete the task. Tis implies that every group member will learn their assigned concept and will be responsible for explaining/ teaching this to other members of the group. As most teachers have discovered, we usually learn more by teaching than we ever learnt as “learners”! Indeed this sentiment is backed up by research - it has been consistently found that students who learn most are those who give and receive elaborated explanations about what they are learning and how they are learning it. — bundlr.com - collaborate January-March 2014 21