Cooperative Learning in Higher Education: Across the Disciplines, Across the Academy

by Millis, Barbara J.; Rhem, James

• ISBN13: 9781579223298
• ISBN10: 157922329X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-30
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

This book provides an ideal introduction for faculty contemplating using cooperative learning approaches in his or her classes. If you've been interested in cooperative learning, but wondered how it would work in your discipline, this book will show you. A series of chapters written by experienced users of cooperative learning provide concrete examples of practice in settings as varied as a developmental mathematics course at a community college, graduate courses in history and the sciences, in small and large classes as well as in hybrid and online environments. The chapters showcase cooperative learning as it's practiced while introducing the reader to major principles such as individual accountability, positive interdependence, heterogeneous teams, group processing, and social or leadership skills. The chapters build upon, and cross-reference, each other, describing particular methods and activities in detail. They explain how and why the authors may differ about specific practices while exemplifying reflective approaches to teaching that never fail to address important assessment issues. The authors describe the application of cooperative learning in disciplines as varied as biology, economics, educational psychology, financial accounting, general chemistry, and literature ' and in settings as varied as remedial, introductory, graduate, and research methods and statistics, classes. Readers will find useful support for whatever level they teach, and whatever their academic discipline. Grounded in the belief that ideas come alive best in genuine contexts, the book moves cooperative learning from theory to practice through the best of all means'”concrete examples.

Author Biography

Barbara J. Millis is Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She frequently offers workshops at professional conferences, and has presented at over 300 colleges and universities. She is the co-author of three books, including Using Simulations to Enhance Learning in Higher Education (2002) with John Hertel.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Editor's Preface	p. xiii
Why Faculty Should Adopt Cooperative Learning Approaches	p. 1
Cooperative Learning in Accounting	p. 11
Cooperative Learning in General Chemistry Through Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning	p. 35
Cooperative Learning Structures Help College Students Reduce Math Anxiety and Succeed in Developmental Courses	p. 57
Cooperative Learning in Educational Psychology Modeling Success for Future Teachers	p. 69
Preparing the Next Generation of Engineering Educators and Researchers: Cooperative Learning in the Purdue University School of Engineering Education PhD Program	p. 91
The Interactive Lecture in a Research Methods and Statistics Class	p. 105
Want Brighter, Harder Working Students? Change Pedagogies!: Some Examples, Mainly from Biology	p. 119
Sequencing Cooperative Learning Activities in Literature Classes	p. 141
Implementing Cooperative Learning in Introductory Economics Courses	p. 157
Cooperative Learning in Geological Sciences	p. 181
Concluding Thoughts on This Volume	p. 201
Bibliography	p. 203
Contributors	p. 215
Index	p. 223
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