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 ...

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’ ...

Well-designed projects help students build valuable skills such as collaboration, critical thinking, and communication.

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 ...

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 ...

In spring 2025, Global Studies opened COIL with the course Building a Sustainable World, where Katies collaborated with students from the Universidad Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico. Students in ...

Roughly a decade ago, a coalition of industry leaders, businesses, nonprofits, and community organizations in an American city tried to pass a ballot measure for a tax increase. The tax aimed to raise ...

Teamwork and collaboration, as part of our UAB Shared Values and Leadership Competencies, are important to your success at UAB. The programs, job aids and resources below offer you the opportunity to ...

Vibrant senior woman and young mixed race woman surfing together at the beach. The multi-generational female friends are walking towards the camera out of the ocean. They are carrying their surfboards ...

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 ...