Collaborative Learning Techniques is the bestseller that college and university faculty around the world have used to help them make the most of small group learning.

A mountain of evidence shows that students who learn in small groups together exhibit higher academic achievement, motivation, and satisfaction than those who don't. Collaborative learning puts into practice the major conclusion from learning theory: that students must be actively engaged in building their own minds. In this book, the...

This book is designed to help the very high percentage of faculty who lecture to do a better job of it. It is intended to provide information about what a lecture is and the various ways to go about it, to provide solid tips for lecturing better, and to provide techniques that can help them help students be better, more active, and more engaged participants in the lecture process. This book will be a focused, up-to-date resource that draws on the collected wisdom from scholarship and practice, and will:

• begin with a synthesis of relevant, contemporary research and theory on...