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 ...

The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework recognizes the importance of interactions between the teaching, social and cognitive presences in creating positive and collaborative learning communities.

The new question-of-the-week is: What is a professional learning community and how can educators build one? Teaching can be an isolated profession—we’re in our rooms all day with students. Students ...

In our fast-paced world, effective communication often eludes us, whether in classrooms, meetings, or personal interactions. While we may understand communication principles, applying them can be ...

It’s important to remember that many students need processing time before engaging with a question, and that offering sufficient “think” time allows a much larger number of students to participate in ...

The Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning sponsors several learning communities that bring together various groups of faculty and graduate students from across campus to engage in active and ...

Almost four years after colleges shifted to emergency remote instruction at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, presidents, provosts and other senior leaders are grappling with tough decisions around ...

The launch of Thinkific Communities introduces an all-new, monetizable product; creators can now build and sell collaborative learning communities that integrate seamlessly with their courses, or ...

The debate over online versus in-person classroom learning in K-12 education rages on, driven by concerns over student engagement, academic performance, and social-emotional development. Advocates of ...

Aubrey Bauman, marking manager and sustainability lead at AMERIgreen Energy, enrolled in the Collaborative MBA program for “the opportunity to learn with professors and classmates from across the ...

Debbie Zacarian ([email protected]) is known for her work in advancing student engagement and achievement. She is an education consultant and the author of many books, including two ...