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Here’s an annotated list of web pages related to CL that I discovered through the courtesy of LEUNG Kwok-wing and his colleagues at the Education Department of the government of Hong Kong. An asterisk indicates that the annotation is written specially for this list of pages, i.e., the annotation does not appear in the web page. 1. http://college.hmco.com/education/pbl/tc/coop.html An overview of cooperative learning excerpted from a book: Biehler/Snowman, Psychology Applied to Teaching, 8/e, 1997, Houghton Mifflin Co. (Chapters 4 & 11). 2. http://www.coedu.usf.edu/~morris/lp_index.html#cooperative This is a collection of more than 75 ideas for group activities. The collection is divided into subject areas with the usual ones covered, but more for language arts. Even if you don’t use the actual activities, they might spark ideas for other things your students can do together. 3. http://www.vta.spcomm.uiuc.edu/ Teamworks, the Virtual Team Assistant, is a web site developed to provide support for group communication processes, and especially for design teams in engineering and other practical arts and sciences. Teamworks consists of nine informational modules, each of which contains background information, instruments for self-assessment, lessons to develop team work skills, and links to helpful resources. An overall view of the site can be obtained at the Teamworks Site Map. Help using Teamworks is available through the Teamworks Help Page. A search engine will be available to help locate specific information or concepts. Information about the project is provided in our proposal and technical reports. Links to internet resources on Teamworks topics are provided in the Teamworks WWWebliography.* The emphasis in this site seems to be on university science courses, particularly engineering. Lots of nice links, and I love the name of the people who put the whole thing together, " Team Engineering Collaboratory."4. http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~theolweb/sander/uebung/cooplearn.html This is the text of the following article by Robert Slavin: Slavin, R. E. (1996). Research for the future: Research on cooperative learning and achievement: What we know, what we need to know. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 21(1), 43-69. 5. http://www.sabes.org/aia101.htm#top This is an article entitled The connection between cooperative learning and assessment written by Marta Mangan-Lev. It appears on the website of the System for Adult Basic Education Support (SABES), established by the Education Department of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The premise of the article is that CL offers many opportunities to do authentic assessment. The article begins with ideas on how to do CL. Next are various ways to do authentic assessment with CL. 6. http://benz.nchu.edu.tw/coop/ideas.htm This web page (in Chinese) from the Taiwan University consists of four main (and brief) sections: (1) What is CL? (2) Principles of CL; (3) Why should we adopt CL? and (4) Ways to organize CL at the classroom level. 7.
http://nawel.dcc.uchile.cl/~cscl/ or
www.carl.cl/~cscl Here’s a site from Chile (in Spanish with some English). The title of the site is Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. The site offers background information, including theoretical constructs, and a great many links. 8.
http://celt.ust.hk/ideas/CCL/ This site was constructed by the Centre for Enhanced Learning and Teaching at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Its primary purpose seems to be to help teachers at the university in their use of Collaborative and Cooperative Learning (CCL). Among the features of the site are a video of a talk by David Johnson that introduces cooperative learning, a FAQ section, articles that describe various approaches to CCL, and a ‘startup kit’ for teachers at the university who want to try CCL. 9. http://www.casa.susx.ac.uk/pal.html This page is from the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences of the University of Sussex. Here’s the entire page. The programme it describes is another example of Out-of-Class Academic Collaboration (OCAC), discussed in two to the articles in the From the Journals section of this issue of the IASCE Newsletter. Peer Assisted Learning What is PAL?Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) is a series of weekly review sessions run on a drop-in basis for students taking traditionally difficult modules. PAL is for all students who want to improve their understanding of module material and improve their grades. The PAL programme is very motivating, helping good students get excellent course results. Attendance at sessions is voluntary
and confidential. For you, the student, it's a chance to get together with
people on your module to compare notes, to discuss important concepts, to
develop strategies for studying the subject and to test yourselves so that
you're ready when the real tests come. You dictate the agenda for the
sessions. At each session you will be
supported by your PAL Leader who is a student who has already successfully
completed the module you are studying. What is a PAL Leader? Have you ever wished you could benefit from hindsight, knowing what you
know now? PAL gives you this opportunity via the PAL Leader, a student who
has taken your module in the previous year and can share with you what
they have learned. PAL Leaders understand what it is like to be confronted
with material that doesn't make sense right away. Where they can, they
will also attend your lectures so that you get a chance to meet them and
so that they know what was said in the lecture What's in it for me?
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