Cooperative Learning in Higher Education

<p>Research has identified cooperative learning as one of the ten High Impact Practices that improve student learning. If you’ve been interested in cooperative learning but wondered how it would work in your discipline this book provides the necessary theory and a wide range of concrete examples.Experienced users of cooperative learning demonstrate how they use it in settings as varied as a developmental mathematics course at a community college and graduate courses in history and the sciences and how it works in small and large classes as well as in hybrid and online environments. The authors describe the application of cooperative learning in biology economics educational psychology financial accounting general chemistry and literature at remedial introductory and graduate levels.The chapters showcase cooperative learning in action at the same time introducing the reader to major principles such as individual accountability positive interdependence heterogeneous teams group processing and social or leadership skills.The authors build upon and cross-reference each others’ chapters describing particular methods and activities in detail. They explain how and why they may differ about specific practices while exemplifying reflective approaches to teaching that never fail to address important assessment issues.</p>