Editor’s Note: Each year, Cathy Collins, the library media specialist and Chinese exchange-program coordinator for the Sharon school district in Massachusetts and a board member of MassCUE, ...
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 ...
Global connections and experiences provide the best path to authentic global career readiness. Utilizing projects that involve a connection and collaboration with students in a community many time ...
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 ...
How does a team of fifth graders collaborate on a coding project? Eight hands on a single keyboard, four conflicting ideas and voices getting progressively louder to the point where no single voice ...
Where does innovation come from and how can creativity be fostered? Matt Ridley, author of “How Innovation Works,” offers some answers. “Innovation happens when people are free to think, experiment ...
Debbie Zacarian ([email protected]) is known for her work in advancing student engagement and achievement. She is an education consultant and the author of many books, including two ...
A new partnership provides flexible career-connected learning units designed for microschools and other emerging education ...
Employers frequently list collaboration and teamwork among the top competencies they value. More graduate programs are also thinking about how to better integrate collaboration and project-based ...
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 ...