The traditional face-to-face college course is a cohort course and has a fixed number of students who progress together to complete it, and they're led by an instructor who guides them and also provides feedback and assesses student projects.
Online courses can be very similar. The only difference might be that there are more ways to communicate with each other since you're working in an online environment, and the students may be working together for one class or taking a series of classes together.
In order to prepare students to work together in the global, distributed workplace of today, let's take the example of the fictional Centennial University. Centennial University has built-in collaborative projects in all their online courses. In the Leadership and Strategic Thinking course, for example, students...