K-12 educators sometimes use the terms “collaborative learning” and “cooperative learning” interchangeably when discussing students working together in the classroom. But the two terms carry distinct ...

To be useful to the educational community, La Digitale offers responsible and free digital tools to support face-to-face and distance teaching and learning. Among this plethora of digital tools is ...

What are some new ways I can use group activities to help students learn? According to the science of learning, students learn better from interactive activities where they talk, act, deliberate, and ...

Disney and Pixar’s successful franchise Toy Story wasn’t an inevitable success. In fact, it had precarious beginnings. Woody, the main character, originally resembled a “hard-drinking cousin of ...

According to the science of learning, students learn better from interactive activities where they talk, act, deliberate, and reflect compared with passive and (superficially) active behaviors, such ...

Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series looking at how to design collaborative spaces for schools, written by an architect with extensive experience in the field. When architects discuss ...

To collaborate or not to collaborate – that is the question. Students choose online study for many reasons – the flexibility of learning around caring or work commitments; the desire for more agency ...

This post is by Wendy Surr, Senior Researcher; Kristina Zeiser, Senior Researcher; and Kimberly Kendziora, Managing Researcher. American Institutes for Research. Many personalized learning models ...

There’s no doubt that teamwork and collaboration—when done right—can make a huge difference in people’s individual and collective effectiveness. But there’s a flip side. Teamwork and collaboration, ...