Isn’t collaborative learning and group work are same? YES/NO. Bunch of students or learners work together to resolve a problem or create a product or complete a task or learn something together is known as collaborative learning. And what about group work? Number of individuals work together on set tasks to enhance the total output of the activity. So, what’s the difference between them? The major difference between them is collaborative learning focuses on both process and final output. But group work only focuses on the final product. Furthermore, In Collaborative learning all the participants take part in discussion, help each other in understanding, encourage each other, listen and respond each other, ask for the ideas from each member, improve social skills and improve relationships with others in the class and collaborating with others individuals will help learner to identify his/her strengths, weakness and also enhances self-awareness. However, in group work, learners talk over each other, learners just compete to get reward or good grades, most of the team members rest and one or two of the group member does all the work. In conclusion, collaborative learning is more effective because, given task is divided between all team members so that every member participate and pour their ideas into the activity.