Howard Community College Improving Student Learning and College Teaching
	By Dr. James Bell, Professor of Psychology with help from the HCC Faculty October 1998

Ideas on Lecturing from a Variety of Places and People

Small Groups, Group Discussion,
and Cooperative Learning: Sources

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See Cooperative Learning and College Teaching Newsletter. Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press. 3 times yearly.

An annotated bibliography of cooperative learning in higher education: Part III - the 1990s by P. Robinson and J. Cooper. (1995).

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