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Brodsky, Neal Howard – Educom Review, 1998
Discusses the new generation of learners who know they will live in a world where team-based programmatic and problem-based learning is a primary activity. The ThinkQuest program, the world's largest academic competition on the Internet, is highlighted, demonstrating the integration of academic disciplines and collaboration via the Internet. (PEN)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Internet
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Kain, Daniel L. – Middle School Journal, 1995
Presents suggestions for using agendas to structure team meetings and for encouraging dialog among team members at middle schools. Discusses the importance of considering dialog in planning agendas and concludes that team dialogs can help to create a new version of collaboration in schools and new connections for students. (KB)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Interprofessional Relationship, Meetings, Middle School Teachers
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Peile, Ed B.; Briner, Wendy – Career Development International, 2001
A workshop examined facilitated case history discussions as a means whereby teams could share their learning around a common focus. Facilitation enabled interactive, interprofessional education through an informal form of discourse analysis of the transcripts of the case discussions. (Contains 20 references.) (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cooperation, Discourse Analysis, Learning Processes
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Strait, Jean R. – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2008
What causes students to leave school? According to Azzam (2007), over 47% of students in the United States who drop out of school reported they did so because school was boring and irrelevant to their life situation. What can schools and teachers do to encourage students to stay in school? One possible solution may be to look at experiential…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Processes, Public Speaking, Skill Development
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Knackendoffel, E. Ann – Focus on Exceptional Children, 2007
Adolescents with learning disabilities are not educated in a vacuum. Successful programming for these students involves many school professionals working together to integrate their programs for the benefit of students with learning disabilities. Collaborative teaming probably can best be described as an attitude rather than a certain way of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Cooperation, Secondary Schools, Teacher Collaboration
Dick, Herman – 1980
The author reviews the background of mainstreaming and least restrictive environment placement for handicapped children, cites problems with the implementation of the concept, and suggests a cooperative approach. He asserts that the learning environment should be modified by focusing on the following factors: modification of content and materials,…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Mainstreaming
Lee, Miyoung; Johnson, Tristan; Lee, Youngmin; O'Connor, Debra; Khalil, Mohammed – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
Many researchers have paid attention to the potentiality and possibility of the shared mental model because it enables teammates to perform their job better by sharing team knowledge, skills, attitudes, dynamics and environments. Even though theoretical and experimental evidences provide a close relationship between the shared mental model and…
Descriptors: Models, Cognitive Ability, Group Dynamics, Cooperation
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Kagan, Spencer – Educational Leadership, 1990
The structural approach to cooperative learning is based on the creation, analysis, and systematic application of content-free ways to organize classroom interactions. Structures (outlined in a table) have differing uses in the academic, cognitive, and social domains, such as team building, communication building, mastery, and concept development.…
Descriptors: Competition, Cooperation, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
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Qin, Zhining; And Others – Review of Educational Research, 1995
The relative impacts of cooperative and competitive efforts on problem-solving success were explored in a review of 46 studies. Findings from these studies were categorized by problem-solving type and subjected to a meta-analysis. Members of cooperative teams outperformed competitive individuals on the identified types of problem solving. (SLD)
Descriptors: Competition, Cooperation, Cooperative Learning, Individualism
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DuFour, Rick – Journal of Staff Development, 1999
Teachers are separated by isolated classrooms and tightly packed schedules, rarely working with colleagues on matters related to teaching and learning. This paper describes benefits of collaborative team structures in schools, discusses potential pitfalls, and notes that the challenge is to develop teams with a high group IQ that can work…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Teacher Collaboration
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Clark, Phillip G. – Educational Gerontology, 1996
Reviews historical trends and the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, problems in the use of interdisciplinary teams, varying degrees of team member participation and satisfaction, concerns about the team decision-making process, and implications of the special education team mandate for the training of gerontology professionals. (SK)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Decision Making, Educational Legislation, Gerontology
Fitzgerald, Robert; Findlay, John – Online Submission, 2006
This whitepaper outlines the development and use of the Zing team learning system (TLS) and suggests this tool represents a new breed of collaborative tool for the development of useable knowledge arising from group learning and problem solving. A key feature of this tool is that it scaffolds the learner's use of the thinking and decision making…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperation, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Bovbjerg, Kirsten Marie – European Educational Research Journal, 2006
In recent decades modern educational organisations have become heavily influenced by new management theories and their new ways of organising staff in teams. This trend started in private organisations with a new organisational agenda but has migrated to public organisations with the introduction of new public management (NPM) in state and…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Collegiality, Educational Change, Governance
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Northup, Kimberly R. – About Campus, 2006
The University of Tampa's Leadership and Sailing program introduces students to leadership and sailing simultaneously by situating their learning about leadership in the context of sailing. By combining outdoor adventure and leadership training, the program is designed to help students learn the basic components of a sailboat and operate the boat…
Descriptors: Aquatic Sports, Leadership Training, Leadership Qualities, Outdoor Education
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Laru, Jari; Jarvela, Sanna – Educational Media International, 2008
The aim of this study was to identify social patterns in mobile technology mediated collaboration among distributed members of the professional distance education community. Ten participants worked for 12 weeks designing a master's programme in information sciences. The participants' mobile technology usage activity and interview data were first…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Distance Education, Network Analysis, Cooperation
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