To collaborate or not to collaborate – that is the question. Students choose online study for many reasons – the flexibility of learning around caring or work commitments; the desire for more agency ...

Diana Laurillard presents ideas and tools for students to create their own digital products as part of a collaborative learning task An effective way of supporting students learning through discussion ...

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 above menu of classroom activities is by no means exhaustive. Over time, instructors committed to active learning tend to develop their own repertoires and variations. The key to creating active ...

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’ ...

The debate over online versus in-person classroom learning in K-12 education rages on, driven by concerns over student engagement, academic performance, and social-emotional development. Advocates of ...

Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series looking at how to design collaborative spaces for schools, written by an architect with extensive experience in the field. When architects discuss ...

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 ...