External links

Online Collaborative Learning in Higher Education
A web site devoted to world's best practice in online collaborative learning in higher education. Based at Central Queensland University, Australia.

Collaborative learning environments sourcebook
A sourcebook for academics and students who want to develop collaborative learning environments (or communities of practice) in which lecturers, students and others can work together to create new knowledge while learning new skills. The collaborative learning environments project was started in late 2002 by lecturers in the Psychology department at the University of South Africa. (See also Martin Terre Blanche's Collaborative Learning Weblog, an online diary of his involvement in collaborative learning at the University of South Africa.)

Collaborative Learning
A comprehensive, well-indexed, site on collaborative small group learning. Includes links to useful resources, to guidelines and tips on "doing" collaborative learning and to case studies.

Computer-Based Collaborative Groupwork
A project based at Sheffield University, UK, on online collaborative learning.

Collaborative Learning Enhances Critical Thinking
An article from the J. of Technology Education vol 7, no 1, Fall 1995 which reports on a study of the of individual learning versus collaborative learning in critical-thinking skills in an engineering subject at college level in the US.

Collaborative Learning
A discussion list and archived comments (1997) on collaborative learning based at Swathmore College, USA.

Let the Adventure Begin (on cooperative learning)
Ted Panitzs' web site has many of his articles on cooperative learning and comprehensive links to relevant sites. The site also includes his materials and links on writing across the curriculum (WAC).

Two Studies of Collaborative Learning
The vol 5, no 1, 1994 issue of the Journal of Excellence in College Teaching has two studies on collaborative learning; Encouraging Critical Thinking Using the Case Study Method and Cooperative Learning Techniques by Robert W. Grossman and The Effectiveness of Cooperative Learning Strategies in Multicultural University Classrooms by Pamela G. George.

Active and Cooperative Learning
Dr Richard Felder on

Project CLUME
The Mathematical Association of America's Project CLUME is a program for mathematics instructors at all post-secondary levels who are interested in using cooperative learning in their mathematics classes

A Guide to Cooperative Learning
Produced by the Prince George's County Public Schools' Electronic Learning Community (ELC)