Today's classroom no longer has four walls and students no longer sit in a row to learn from a subject expert. Learning now happens everywhere and anytime through collaboration, sharing and reflection between the peers. These changes have connected the students, educators, learning resources and activities into a collaborative learning environment that allow students to personalize the learning process, and change the sole determining role of the educators. Therefore, it builds the student-centred learning experience and makes the classroom learning to be less teacher-dependent. This study aims at studying constructivist perspective of students towards collaborative learning. In constructivist learning, environment which is designed based on Jonassen's constructivist learning principles (Jonassen, 1999) that plays a major role in student's better learning. In addition, benefits of collaborative learning are to engage the students in this learning approach to promote participation, collaboration, communication and implications of constructivism towards teaching and learning.
Constructivism, collaboration, collaborative learning
