We thank Iveta Silova, from the Latvian foundation, for sharing these links with us.

WWW RESOURCES FOR COOPERATIVE LEARNING

Kagan's Cooperative Learning Spencer Kagan and his team are some of the foremost consultants and publishers with regard to cooperative learning. This site includes information on professional development opportunities as well as their catalog of books, videos, manipulatives, posters, and kits.

The Cooperative Learning (CL) Network is an association of colleagues at Sheridan College who model, share, support, and advocate for the use of cooperative learning. This is an information-rich web site devoted to uses of cooperative learning in post-secondary or college classroom environments.

The Johnson’s Cooperative Learning Home Page provides research papers and articles

on cooperative, competitive, and individualistic efforts and conflict resolution. You can also find information on cooperative school, peacemaking, violence prevention, assessment strategies and other interesting publications and materials.

Instructional Innovation Network’s Collaborative/Cooperative Learning web site is a good starting place for anyone interested in CL theory and practical tips. The link to "Models, Theories, and Research" mentions most of the leading writers in this area, and includes articles which stress how CL differs from traditional groupwork. "Resources and Links" connects you to journals & newsletters and acts as a gateway to other CL sites on the Net.

For more than 25 years, the Center has conducted research to improve the education system, as well as develop curricula and providing technical assistance to help schools use the Center’s research results. This site includes information on the Success for All program aims to help lower elementary school pupils who are in danger of falling behind. Cooperative learning is one of several components of Success for All. The website has lots of information, but if you look in the Research and Publications section, you can read some papers on CL by Robert Slavin and his colleagues. As you probably know, Slavin and his colleagues are among the leading researchers on and practitioners of CL.

California Department Of Education's Cooperative Learning

This site is an excellent overview of Cooperative Learning's response to diversity in the classroom. It contain several links to other Cooperative Learning resources!

This site contains a bibliography for using cooperative learning in the mathematics classroom.

Seems that people in the cyberworld have long been focusing on how to support collaboration in learning/working environments that use technology. This site provides information about 'Virtual CL' - strategies that promote CL in online discussion groups and more!

Daniel Holt, Barbara Chips, and Diane Wallace describe and illustrate the successful use of cooperative learning methods at the secondary level in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms. Practical examples of cooperative activities and complete lessons are provided for teaching second language development, subject matter, and interpersonal skills.

Sherman, L. W. (1990). Cooperative Learning In Post-Secondary Education: Implications From Social Psychology For Active Learning Experiences. A paper presentation to the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL: 3-7 April, 1990. (revised, 1/96).

This site contains a collection of articles and research papers about the use of active and cooperative instructional methods in college science and engineering courses, some reporting on classroom research studies and some summarizing the literature. Some of the references may be viewed and downloaded from this site.

This site was developed by Susan Ledlow and Neil Davidson and contains considerable information on Cooperative and Collaborative Learning, especially in post-secondary environments, including Johnson & Johnson’s article What we know about cooperative learning at the college level.

ERIC Abstracts on Cooperative Learning

The site contains selected abstracts on cooperative learning prepared by the Association on Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD).

What better place to learn about Multiple Intelligences than the source itself. This link includes excellent links to online articles, inlcluding Gardner's article "Intelligence in Seven Steps" in which he traces what he describes as the seven historical stages in the development of thinking about intelligence.

This site offers selected articles published in the special issue of Educational Leadership which was entirely devoted to Multiple Intelligences (MI). You can read an interview with Howard Grander, find out how teachers interpret MI theory, and the role of MI in school improvement.

Multiple Intelligences for Adult Literacy and Adult Education explores innovative ways to apply the theory of multiple intelligences to basic skills, learning styles, and adult literacy education.

This site focuses in on helping instructors and students discover their many intelligences and how to use them effectively in mastering whatever content is being learned in the classroom and at home.

Here you can find a chapter on MI written by Howard Gardner in the book CREATING THE FUTURE: Perspectives on Educational Change.

The Mid-Atlantic Association for Cooperation in Education (MAACIE), part of the International Association for the Study of Cooperation in Education, recently started a website. The Mid-Atlantic is a region of the U.S. in the middle of the East Coast. The site includes 14 articles from the MAACIE newsletter.

International Association for the Study of Cooperation in Education (IASCE) is an international educational association dedicated to the study and practice of cooperation in education, a field that includes the increasingly popular cooperative classroom methods by which students work together in learning teams to master academic content and collaborative skills. The IASCE Home Page, maintained by Larry Sherman of Miami University in Ohio, includes information about the IASCE, research papers, and links.

Deliberations on cooperative learning is another site offering discussions of CL issues relevant to post-secondary settings. It covers a range of issues and topics involved in Collaborative learning including the competitive nature of academic tuition, lack of awareness of CL techniques, current evaluation and support for its implementation.

Cooperative Learning Listserv

For those interested in an international LISTSERV on cooperative learning they may subscribe to the CL listserv by sending an e-mail message to LISTSERVER@JARING.MY.

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