After working for twelve years as an elementary school teacher, an instructor in higher education, and a facilitator for professional development workshops, I felt comfortable with instructional ...

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’ ...

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 ...

Over the past several years, I've posted many examples of collaborative learning in my history classrooms grades 8-10. The part that gets most students' and educators' attention is that I do not give ...

David James is CLO at 360Learning, host of The Learning & Development Podcast and former Director of L&D for The Walt Disney Company. The lifeblood of collaborative learning is subject matter experts ...

One of the most robust backward design models developed for higher education is L. Dee Fink’s integrated course design. Fink outlines a streamlined process for designing academic courses, divided into ...

Classrooms designed for active and collaborative learning are transforming the teaching and learning experience for students and faculty. While every active-learning classroom is unique — based on the ...

The landscape of arts-based teaching is undergoing a radical transformation in 2026, driven not by a lack of technology but by its overwhelming abundance. With AI tools capable of generating polished ...

Source: Zjarral1 [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] Learning new skills can be a great way to keep an aging brain in shape. How can ...