This research identified a range of fifteen roles. There are differentiated roles for facilitators and participants. The Shifting Roles of Facilitators and Participants. Recreating relationships is also the core role that subtends all other roles of participants and facilitators in collaborative learning communities. The three schemes showed that facilitators and participants are motivated to engage more fully with their various roles when they appreciate the relational dynamics within their respective learning communities.
Dialogue creates degrees of understanding across difference.
In collaborative learning the value of each individual voice is upheld. Hearing each others voices, appreciating differing perspectives and interconnecting these voices with personal experience creates a relational acoustic. Shifting Roles of Facilitators and Participants Through the process of collaborative learning, and as the quality of relationships develops, role shifts may occur. The spectrum of roles for facilitators and participants may be situated along a continuum. Differentiated roles are typically manifested at the opening phases of the continuum.