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’ ...

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 ...

Collaborative learning has emerged as a pivotal educational approach that harnesses the collective expertise of learners to enhance understanding and problem-solving capabilities. Recent advancements ...

Collaborative learning environments have become a pivotal element in modern education, integrating technology with pedagogical strategies to promote interactive, peer-supported knowledge construction.

Suchi Rudra is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC and Vice, among other publications. The future of learning is collaborative, and the modern classroom is starting to reflect ...

Using computers to support student collaboration has significant positive effects on their learning, according to a comprehensive new review of more than 400 research studies conducted since 2000. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

When students engage in group work that is intentionally designed to support cooperative learning, they develop interpersonal and critical thinking skills while practicing accountability behaviors ...

The education industry is at a crossroads, grappling with outdated systems and the rapid advancement of technology. Teachers are overwhelmed, students are underprepared for the modern workforce, and ...

“Collaboration” is a term that is used to describe a wide range of team arrangements, which can lead to confusion when one team member means one thing by the term and another means something entirely ...

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 ...