Collaborative Learning 59: Underlying Processes and Effective Techniques (J-B TL Single Issue Teaching and Learning)

by Kris Bosworth (Editor), Sharon J. Hamilton (Editor), Allen Emerson (Contributor)

The demographic makeup of the student population in higher education has changed in dramatic ways over the past decade. These changes have motivated questions about what constitutes knowledge and about how we learn and understand new concepts, processes, and skills.

Contents:
Is this collaboration? / Jeanne Marcum Gerlach --
Teacher as co-conspirator: knowledge and authority in collaborative learning / James L. Flannery --
Developing collaborative skills in college students / Kris Bosworth --
Group dynamics: understanding group success and failure in collaborative learning / Judith E. Miller, John Trimbur, John M. Wilkes --
Critical thinking and collaborative learning / Craig E. Nelson --
Computer technology and collaborative learning / Patricia Sullivan --
Assessing effectiveness in the collaborative classroom / Sharon Farago Cramer --
Case studies / Allen Emerson [and others] --
Freedom transformed: toward a developmental model for the construction of collaborative learning environments / Sharon J. Hamilton.

120 pages, Paperback

First published October 27, 1994