Collaborative Learning - College of Education Educational Psychology Collaborative Learning refers to the process of joint construction of knowledge, as people work, inquire, and learn together based on a shared purpose. The Collaborative Learning Program offers professional practitioners an opportunity to increase their understanding of collaborative learning processes and to develop their skills as facilitators of collaborative learning in professional and volunteer settings. The specialization in Collaborative Learning is a cohort-based alternative residency program. A small cohort of students is admitted bi-annually, and cohort members spend two calendar years in residence.
Members usually enroll in six to nine credit hours of course work per term.
The program is focused on members' own professional practices. Their dissertations utilize some form of action research and regarding various aspects of collaborative learning within the workplace. Members work in small research teams during the planning and implementation phases of their dissertation research. The broader community of learners formed by faculty and students provides an ideal setting in which members can jointly construct knowledge and skills that apply uniquely to each member's practice. A small number of courses constitute the core of the program.