Cooperative and collaborative learning are not new concepts in the field of education - they have been studied for decades and have been used as classroom practices for much longer than that. Although ...

Cooperative Learning is when small teams of students work together to better understand a subject and solve problems. Advantages of Cooperative Learning are broad and deep. A joint study conducted by ...

Classrooms have always been social spaces a blend of personalities, ideas, and energy. But for decades, we’ve debated how students should work together. Should they collaborate freely, bouncing ideas ...

Academic instructors, hired for their content expertise, are rarely trained in skills like classroom facilitation or community-building. But successful collaborative learning requires a degree of ...

Katrina Hankins is the literacy coach at Roebuck Elementary in Spartanburg, SC. Katrina also serves as a summer reading-camp teacher in schools across Spartanburg District 6. Dawn Mitchell serves in ...

Indrani Dey is a PhD student in Learning Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying under Dr. Sadhana Puntambekar. At iSAT, she works with Dr. Puntambekar to investigate how students’ ...