Collaboration

Collaborative/Cooperative Learning:

Active Learning: Cooperation in the College Classroom, 1998
David and Roger Johnson and Karl Smith

"A comprehensive view of the use of formal cooperative learning lessons, informal cooperative learning groups, and cooperative base groups in the college classroom. Numerous specific lesson structures are included. An excellent overview of how to use cooperative learning at the college level. The book is also useful for secondary school teachers."--blurb from Interaction Book Company

ISBN 0-939603-14-4 $26.00

	Another useful source, based on science but adaptable to other disciplines = The Collaborative Learning Small Group Learning Page.
	This article at Smith-Weaver-Smith by Denham Gray concerns online collaboration and has a business slant, BUT it analyzes better than any other article I've read exactly where trust and distrust come from. Please note the idea about likenesses and surprises and self-revelation as the groundwork for trust.
	See also this collection of online articles about assessment and collaborative learning in Washington State, especially this article about two faculty who converted a traditional biology lecture/lab into more student-centered weeks of learning.

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