Reform issues can be a sensitive subject depending on how you view change. From a systemic perspective collaborative learning alone could never be responsible for reforming education, but used in conjunction with other student centered learning and teaching techinques it can help foster educational change, at a grassroots level. This was one reason collaborative learning and technology go hand-in-hand. Both are grassroots movements originating with the teachers. This page is for people interested in collaborative learning as a reform and the systems view of education.

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Zell, Paul W. Impediments to Developing Collaborative Learning Strategies: The Input vs. Output Conflict. 1994. Source: Journal of Science Education and Technology. v3 n2. p107-14 Jun 1994.

Taylor, Patricia Simmons. None of Us Is Smarter than All of Us: The Reform in California's Curriculum. 1988. Source: English Journal. v77 n8. p14-19 Dec 1988.

Implementation of Collaborative Learning Implementing Collaborative Learning Through Mainstreaming Faculty Use of Technology http://www.an.psu.edu/jsn3/paper.html

Article by Jeanne Sewell, RN, MSN Georgia College and State University-Designing and Internet Course for Collaborative Learning http://gateach.gac.peachnet.edu/homepage/webpage/jsweeney.htm

School’s View on How to Incorporate Collaborative Learning in the Classroom http://print.cps.nl/calgary/1.html

A Description of Collaborative Learning at a Systemic Level in Canada http://www.cbe.ab.ca/ch_supt/clc.htm

Schools as Collaboartive Learning Communities http://www.vision.net.au/~globallearning/services/CLC.html