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 ...

Poke your head into any school around the country and you are likely to see students working in small groups. Why do educators see small group collaboration as a model to facilitate learning? Small ...

Group work refers to learning experiences in which students work together on the same task. Group work can help build a positive and engaging learning community through peer learning and teaching.

This desk arrangement facilitates peer discussions and supports effective collaborative and independent work. And students prefer it.

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’ ...

Faced with a tough decision that needs to be made quickly, most leaders’ command-and- control instincts kick in. They are often wrong. In a world changing at an extraordinary pace, expecting a leader ...