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Collaborative Learning 101

K. Patricia Cross

The Cross Papers Number 4 (2000) K. Patricia Cross writes an article on Collaborative Learning, as

one of her famous "Cross Papers,"written as a Senior League Fellow at the League for Innovation

in the Community College. She is one of the champions of the continuing effort to improve and

expand student learning, in an article that is both "scholarly and practical."

Cross, K. Patricia. (2000). Cross Paper #4: Collaborative Learning 101. Mission Viejo , CA : League for Innovation in the Community College

Active and Cooperative Learning Resources

Visit the Instructional Innovation Network at http://clte.asu.edu/active/main.htm to see

examples of cooperative learning and case-study teaching methods. This is a national database of

excellent practices in higher education developed under a FIPSE grant by Susan Ledlow of Arizona

State University in partnership with Cal Poly Pomona . You can submit your own best practices

for inclusion in their national database if you so desire.

Appropriate Uses of the Lecture

David 4v. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson and Karl A. Smith

Active Learning: Cooperation in the Classroom

Lecture has both advantages and disadvantages. This chapter describes the use of informal

cooperative learning groups to make students cognitively active during lectures.

Johnson, David W., Johnson, Roger T., and Smith, Karl A. (1998). Active learning: Cooperation

in the college classroom, (5, pp. 4-9). Edina , MN : Interaction Book Company.

FAQs on Discussion

National Teaching and Learning Forum

An article from the NTLF by Joan Middendorf and Alan Kalish, Teaching Resource Center, Indiana

University.