Collaborative learning environments capitalise on collective knowledge construction, where learners engage in joint problem solving and discussions to enhance understanding. Social annotation ...

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 ...

CHICAGO—For the eighth grader Kimberly Wilborn, a lesson about Nelson Mandela made it all click. “Ms. Plante was talking about Nelson Mandela and how he forgave his jailers,” remembers Wilborn, who is ...

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’ ...

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 ...

The gifted group. The slow group. The behavioral issues group. Grouping in schools fell out of favor partially because educators—and parents—felt like kids were getting labeled and that groupings didn ...

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 ...