collaborative learning Archives

Using Collaborative Problem Solving to Improve Learning

Gifty Blankson, Anuradha Vummenthala, and Natalie Ulrich January 9, 2023

Collaborative problem solving is an active learning strategy that promotes a richer understanding of course content, application, and significance than traditional lecture-based pedagogy. When students participate in collaborative problem solving, they not only learn course content, but they also practice critical process skills, including information

Collaborative Online International Learning: Using Technology to Connect Classrooms around the World

Amy Anderson October 17, 2022

Over the past half century, colleges and universities have prioritized students’ global awareness and intercultural communication skills as institutional outcomes. The goal is that graduates will be prepared to contribute to diverse workplaces and be able to communicate with people from different cultures. Historically, these

Boosting Student Engagement and Achievement during Collaborative Learning

Yunteng He September 6, 2022

Many of us know by now that didactic lecture is incongruent with student learning: receiving information passively tends to disengage students, which is likely to result in undesirable learning outcomes. Even though lecture remains the predominant form of teaching, collaborative learning has been a popular

Study Buddies: Learning with a Partner

Maryellen Weimer April 4, 2022

Last week I happened onto something I’d written years ago about study buddies—two students who agree to study together in a course. I was describing a community college first-year seminar program that partnered students in the seminar and a general education course linked to it.

Collaborative Note-Taking for Students

Maryellen Weimer December 13, 2021

Here’s how collaborative notes typically work: on a rotating basis, students (usually one or two) take notes during class and then post them online. The collaborative notes are intended to support rather than replace individual note-taking, although they do provide absent students information about content

My Students Don’t Like Group Work

Maryellen Weimer July 12, 2017

Students don’t always like working in groups. Ann Taylor, an associate professor of chemistry at Wabash College, had a class that was particularly vocal in their opposition. She asked for their top 10 reasons why students don’t want to work in groups and they offered

The Benefits of Peer Learning

Maryellen Weimer January 25, 2017

Three articles in the February issue of the Teaching Professor newsletter deal with peer learning—a large category that includes activities through which students learn from and with each other. Peer learning gets troublesome for many faculty due to the idea that students are teaching each

collaborative learning

Using Collaborative Problem Solving to Improve Learning

Collaborative Online International Learning: Using Technology to Connect Classrooms around the World

Boosting Student Engagement and Achievement during Collaborative Learning

Study Buddies: Learning with a Partner

Collaborative Note-Taking for Students

The Benefits of Peer Learning

Archives

Get the Latest Updates

Subscribe To Our Weekly Newsletter

2718 Dryden Drive
Madison, WI 53704
1-800-433-0499

collaborative learning

Archives

Get the Latest Updates

Subscribe To Our Weekly Newsletter

2718 Dryden Drive Madison, WI 53704 1-800-433-0499

2718 Dryden Drive
Madison, WI 53704
1-800-433-0499