Evaluation of cooperative learning in graduate course of natural language processing

Abstract

As a new collaborating teaching approach, cooperative learning has attracted more and more educational research interests. In this study, taking the teaching characteristics of graduate course of natural language processing into consideration, we apply cooperative learning based on Blackboard platform to improve the conventional graduate teaching. Through two years of teaching practice, we evaluate the effect of cooperative learning in the learning of course content and project development. The evaluation results show that cooperative learning approach improves the teaching effectiveness on course contents. Especially, this approach improves the cooperation among students in the project development effectively.