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 ...

Cooperative and collaborative learning are not new concepts in the field of education - they have been studied for decades and have been used as classroom practices for much longer than that. Although ...

Excerpted from "The ABCs of How We Learn: 26 Scientifically Proven Approaches, How They Work, and When to Use Them," (c) 2016 by Daniel L. Schwartz, Jessica M. Tsang ...

Young workers are losing motivation. Per a recent Gallup report, “the percentage of engaged employees under the age of 35 dropped by six percentage points from 2019 to 2022. And during the same time, ...

“A structured form of small group problem solving that incorporates the use of heterogeneous teams, maintains individual accountability, promotes positive interdependence, instills group processing, ...

Learning involves not only the acquisition of new knowledge by learners but also the integration into the knowledge community and the construction of meaning through social interaction (Chen et al., ...

Although critical thinking has a long history in research, the concept of critical thinking, which is regarded as an essential competence for learners in the 21st century, has recently attracted more ...

Since quite a few years India has been adopting digital modes in every operation from connectivity, to transactions, to production, to education. And with the outbreak of a life threatening pandemic, ...

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 ...