Cooperative Learning and Group Work

(Carnegie Mellon provides advice on benefits, challenges, tactics, sample tools)

Richard M. Felder & Rebecca Brent of NC State discuss in a helpful Q&A format

(information about types of groups and how to use them from the National Institute for Science Education)

(advice to both faculty and students from Harvard's teaching center)

(from Penn State's teaching center)

(benefits and strategies from the University of Iowa)

Barbara J. Millis, who teaches at the U.S. Air Force Academy, provides tips on in this Idea Center paper

(helpful how-to information from the University of Maryland)

Junko Shimazoe & Howard Aldrich, , from the journal College Teaching, available on campus or through VPN)

Eric Mazur on Peer Instruction & Just in Time Teaching (PowerPoint presentation detailing his philosophy and methods)

University of Colorado Science Education Initiative, Effective Group Work in College Science Classrooms, and (video)

The next three resources are all videos from the Western Washington University project on Empowering Peer Learning, and they all also contains links to more extended written discussions and student learning outcomes for the profiled courses.