Good practice encourages cooperation among students. Learning is enhanced when it is more like a team effort than a solo race. Good learning, like good work, is collaborative and social, not competitive and isolated. Working with others often increases involvement in learning. Sharing one's own ideas and responding to others' reactions improves thinking and deepens understanding.
Good practice encourages active learning.
Learning is not a spectator sport. Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to instructors, memorizing assignments, and passing back answers on a test. Learning must move beyond knowledge and comprehension of a subject. Learning must move to application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation as well. Students must talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives.