Collaborative learning is now playing an important role in teaching and learning practice. Students can be trained to have the habits of collaborating and the ability of communication.Online collaborative learning is a new direction of online learning.In this environment, students may use computers and network to communicate with other students or teachers. Online collaborative learning will be of great benefit to help leaming.The network environment makes it easier to communicate among the learners, which is beneficial to the development of cooperative study. However ,the effective teaching strategy can help the learners carry on the cooperative study well. The aim of this research is to combine both network study and cooperative study, to search for the effective teaching design in the network environment.Focused on the design of teaching activity in the network environment, we analyze our experiment and the related theory in this research. Some views and suggestions on its possible development trend are also presented.
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