While it might be tempting to view “active learning” as another educational buzzword, a large body of research demonstrates that active and collaborative classrooms produce deeper and more ...

Education has lost its roots—its Latin roots, that is. Educate derives from educatus, past participle of educare, which means “to bring up” or “to rear” and which is related to educere, “to bring out, ...

Over the past several years, I've posted many examples of collaborative learning in my history classrooms grades 8-10. The part that gets most students' and educators' attention is that I do not give ...

"Sat on his arse and had group presentations teach class the last 5 weeks of qtr." --a "Rate My Professors" comment Quick now: when did you first hear the phrase, "collaborative learning" (and, if ...

Transforming a large lecture class into a more personal, engaging experience doesn’t have to involve high-tech gadgets and a team of production assistants. Plenty of other strategies work. Here are a ...

What does the "classroom of the future" look like? In contrast to the traditional lecture-oriented room, this increasingly popular kind of space, known as a "studio classroom," emphasizes group ...

Colleges are investing significant time and money to create active-learning classrooms that support a new generation of pedagogical practices. Although institutions may be taking a cue from K–12 ...

We examined the effects of cooperative and individual review of lecture material on subsequent free-recall performance. College students listened to a prerecorded lecture in one of four experimental ...

Collaborative learning in college is an instructional approach where students work together in small groups to solve problems, complete tasks, or discuss concepts. It emphasizes shared responsibility, ...