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 ...

Think-pair-share (TPS) is the black dress of active learning: a highly flexible tool that can take as little or as much time as needed, and serve a number of pedagogical purposes including ...

K-12 educators sometimes use the terms “collaborative learning” and “cooperative learning” interchangeably when discussing students working together in the classroom. But the two terms carry distinct ...

Student “voice” means encouraging students to share their thoughts in a class discussion. It also means teachers take ...

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’ ...

Cutting-edge learning spaces are designed with flexibility and collaboration in mind, right down to the modular tables and chairs. This story appeared in the November 2012 digital edition of Campus ...

Collaborative learning draws its sources from the constructivist theory which places the learner as the master of his learning. As such, the learner will not only be the actor in the process of ...

The debate over online versus in-person classroom learning in K-12 education rages on, driven by concerns over student engagement, academic performance, and social-emotional development. Advocates of ...