One of the main concerns about generative AI is “cheating,” or students getting credit for work they didn’t do. One of the main concerns about generative AI is “cheating,” or students getting credit ...

Indrani Dey is a PhD student in Learning Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying under Dr. Sadhana Puntambekar. At iSAT, she works with Dr. Puntambekar to investigate how students’ ...

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 ...

Whole-Group Formation Stage' of classroom group development using two axes: 'stability' and 'activity.' The key points were to keep roles flexible rather than fixed, and to progress from a stage of co ...

Collaborative assignments and projects are group learning experiences with specific goals or end-products that students achieve or create together to master one or more learning outcomes. The ...

Co-authored by Rónan Fulton, Alana McCarthy, and Michael Hogan. Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly becoming part of collaborative learning. As GenAI tools become increasingly ...

Collaborative group work is increasingly prioritized across higher education, particularly in the life sciences and STEM-related fields. But how students communicate within these smaller groups is key ...

A while back, I wrote that college students should learn skills in addition to knowledge, and that instructors should be clear about teaching skills such as collaboration, communication, critical ...

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 ...