The Journal of the Learning Sciences provides a multidisciplinary forum for the presentation of research on learning and education. It seeks to foster new ways of thinking about learning that will ...

Learning collaboratives are increasingly used as mechanisms to support and hasten the diffusion and implementation of innovation, clinical evidence, and effective models of care. Factors contributing ...

This article describes the basic elements of cooperative learning and mastery learning and shows how these 2 strategies are natural complements to one another. 4 common premises shared by cooperative ...

Collaborative Learning in Practice is a method of organising placement learning that enables student nurses to care for patients and act as team members in care settings earlier and more effectively.

Collaborative learning in practice is being adopted internationally and nationally for student nurse placements as an alternative to one-to-one mentoring. It works on coaching, rather than mentoring, ...

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’ ...

Using computers to support student collaboration has significant positive effects on their learning, according to a comprehensive new review of more than 400 research studies conducted since 2000. The ...