Book description
Engaging students in active learning is a predominant theme in today's
classrooms. To promote active learning, teachers across the disciplines
and in all kinds of colleges are incorporating collaborative learning
into their teaching.
Collaborative Learning Techniques
is a scholarly and well-written handbook that guides teachers through
all aspects of group work, providing solid information on what to do,
how to do it, and why it is important to student learning. Synthesizing
the relevant research and good practice literature, the authors present
detailed procedures for thirty collaborative learning techniques (CoLTs)
and offer practical suggestions on a wide range of topics, including how
to form groups, assign roles, build team spirit, solve problems, and
evaluate and grade student participation. Elizabeth F. Barkley
is professor of music at Foothill College in Los Altos, California. She
is also is a national Carnegie Scholar and was named California's 1998
Higher Education Professor of the Year by The Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching.
K. Patricia Cross is professor of higher education, emerita, at
the University of California, Berkeley. She is author or coauthor of
seven Jossey-Bass books, including Accent on Learning, Adults as
Learners, Classroom Assessment Techniques, and Classroom Research.
Claire Howell Major is associate professor of higher education
administration at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa instead of
University of Alabama in Birmingham.
