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Eastern Kentucky University, Teaching and Learning Center – Cooperative Learning  Griffith University – Resource Pack for Teaching Students’ Teamwork Skills SkillCity Flinders University – Teaching Strategies: Group Work "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 sharpens thinking and deepens understanding." Chickering, A. & Gamson, Z. 1987, "Seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education", Reprinted by Honolulu Community College, viewed 20 June 2007, URL: http://aahebulletin.com/public/archive/sevenprinciples1987.asp "The critical attributes of cooperative learning, a more structured form of collaborative learning, are: positive interdependence, individual accountability, appropriate grouping, group processing, and social skills. The teacher serves as a facilitator rather than as an authority figure. Cooperative-learning techniques supplement, rather than replace, traditional approaches in the classroom, but their adoption requires a student-centered, noncompetitive approach to learning." Millis, B. & Cottell, P. 1998, Cooperative Learning for Higher Education Faculty, American Council on Education and the Oryx Press, Phoenix Arizona, p. 17.
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