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 ...

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’ ...

Language learning within educational settings has increasingly embraced peer interaction as a vital component of effective pedagogy. Empirical studies demonstrate that structured peer interactions, ...

Active learning strategies engage students in the learning process, fostering deeper understanding and retention. By encouraging participation, collaboration, and critical thinking during classroom ...

“All human beings by nature desire to know,” declares Aristotle in his philosophical treatise, Metaphysics. From the beginning of time, the desire to know, to learn and to grow seems embedded in the ...

In an age of tightening budgets and increasing needs for learning, training, and development, HR professionals are forced to get creative about the programming they provide. Especially because there’s ...

Professional development has long followed a predictable formula: Junior staff members learn from senior team leaders, managers enroll in structured programs, and organizations invest in top-down ...

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 ...