Conference Session

Stops and Starts in the Development of Cooperative Education Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

engage with these materials. It is primarily a call toconsider how students engage in their college experience, and to search for proper tools that canbe deployed to stimulate learning.In moving forward, there are numerous tools available to select from, including the modelspredicated on cooperation; i.e., working together to accomplish shared goals. Within cooperativeactivities, individuals seek outcomes that are beneficial to them and also benefit all other groupmembers. (2, 3) Cooperative learning researchers and practitioners have shown that positive peerrelations are essential to success in college. The positive interpersonal relationships promotedthrough cooperative learning are regarded by most as crucial to today’s learning