University Teaching & Learning Center
Cooperative Learning Links
Gathered by Barbara MillisU.S. Air Force Academy
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Highly Recommended Sites
http://www.calstatela.edu/dept/chem/chem2/Active/index.htm
Dr. Don Paulson, a chemist at California State at Los Angeles, has written a number of articles related to using active learning techniques in science, engineering, mathematics, and technology courses. His web site contains a number of rapid techniques useful in a variety of classes.
http://home.capecod.net/~tpanitz/
This comprehensive web site by Ted Panitz of Cape Cod Community College contains a vast number of resources on cooperative learning including an e-book, articles, faculty surveys, threaded discussions, links, and examples. Additionally, it has material on writing-across-the-curriculum and a joke file.
http://www.co-operation.org
Maintained by David T. Johnson and Roger W. Johnson, long-time cooperative learning researchers and practitioners, the web site for the Cooperative Learning Center at the University of Minnesota contains valuable background information on cooperative learning including three newsletters and some key articles such as “Cooperative Learning Methods: A Meta-Analysis,” which focuses on what can be proved to work.
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Learning_Styles.html
Richard Felder’s wonderful web site contains a wealth of articles, advice, and research to promote better teaching, particularly in the sciences. Dr. Felder’s home page declares:
- There are well-defined instructional techniques that make teaching more effective.
- These techniques can be introduced slowly and methodically, without compromising coverage of the syllabus. Many do not require large expenditures of money, time, and effort.
- Most importantly, the techniques have been validated by careful, documented, repeatable research. Their effectiveness is not simply a matter of opinion. They work!
This Web site offers guidance on what those techniques are and tips and resources for using them. Dr. Felder has included over forty articles published as a column, “Random Thoughts,” in Chemical Engineering Education , including his well-known, “We Never Said It would be Easy,” on group work caveats. Also recommended is Felder and Brent’s: “Cooperative Learning in Technical Courses: Procedures, Pitfalls, and Payoffs.”
http://www.kaganonline.com/index.html
A highly commercialized site geared primarily toward a K-12 audience, it is nevertheless worth a visit for a few nuggets and to pay tribute to Spencer Kagan, the pioneer of the structured approach to cooperative learning.
http://www.iasce.net/
The homepage of the International Association for the Study of Cooperation in Higher Education contains some good web resources.
http://doe.concordia.ca/cslp/
The home page of the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance at Concordia University, whose goal is to study and promote effective teaching/learning strategies through an active association with schools, administrators, and teachers, has a strong emphasis on cooperative learning.
http://www.maa.org/programs/clume.html
The Mathematical Association of America’s Project CLUME is a program for mathematics instructors at all post-secondary levels who are interested in using cooperative learning in their mathematics classes.
http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/socialstudies/pdf/session6/6.CooperativeLearning.pdf (PDF)
An ERIC publication by Robert J. Stahl, Arizona State University, “The Essential Elements of Cooperative Learning in the Classroom,” provides a useful overview to anyone new to cooperative learning.
http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/bib/92-2dig.htm
An ERIC publication by David W. Johnson, and others, on “Cooperative Learning: Increasing College Faculty Instructional Productivity” gives an overview of cooperative learning, some ways to implement it, plus the rationale for doing so.
http://www.sedl.org/scimath/compass/v01n02/welcome.html
This K-12 science and math site contains an issue of Classroom Compass , a publication of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, promoting cooperative learning.
http://www.jigsaw.org/
This highly specialized site focuses on one elaborate cooperative learning approach, Jigsaw. It contains articles relating to school violence, including a book chapter by Aronson, “Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion After Columbine.”
http://www.georgejacobs.net/
The home page of George M. Jacobs, an educator based in Singapore, contains a wealth of articles and a PowerPoint presentation on cooperative learning. Many, but not all, of the articles deal with English-as-a second-language issues.
http://www.fccj.org/sccl/
The Southeastern Center for Cooperative Learning was established to provide an on-going effort to promote, research, explore and disseminate the practices, theories and strategies of cooperative learning within Florida Community College and to other institutions. The web site contains a brief rationale for using cooperative learning and several free publications.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/er/cooplrng.asp
With an emphasis on cooperative's learning ability to promote respect for diversity, this web site, maintained by the California Department of Education, contains some interesting insights.
http://www.pgcps.pg.k12.md.us/~elc/learning1.html
This resource provided by the Prince George's County, MD, School System is a good start for those new to cooperative learning. It contains basic information, including the key elements of cooperative learning, team formation issues, and some useful activities.
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/index.html
Pete Jones’ web site contains a number of novel cooperative activities suited for modern language classrooms.
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