Enhancing Learning — and More! — Through Cooperative Learning
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Enhancing Learning — and More! — Through Cooperative Learning - IDEA Paper 38

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Barbara J. Millis, U.S. Air Force Academy

December 1, 2002

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Enhancing Learning — and More! — Through Cooperative Learning

Some of higher education’s most challenging goals include enhancing critical thinking, promoting “deep” (as opposed to superficial) learning, encouraging both self-esteem and the acceptance of others, and improving interpersonal effectiveness (with an emphasis on team skills). This paper describes cooperative learning, an instructional approach designed especially with these objectives in mind.

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