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Book SynopsisHow can colleges and universities engage students in ways that prepare them to solve problems in our rapidly changing world?Most American colleges and universities assimilate students into highly competitive undergraduate experiences. By placing achievement for personal and material gain as the bedrock of a college education, these institutions fail to educate students to become collaborative learners: people who are committed and prepared to join with others in developing promising solutions to problems that they share with others. Drawing on a three-year study of student persistence and learning at Minority-Serving Institutions, Clifton Conrad and Todd Lundberg argue that student success in college should be redefined by focusing on the importance of collaborative learning over individual achievement. Engaging students in shared, real-world problem-solving, Conrad and Lundberg assert, will encourage them to embrace interdependence and to value and draw on diverse perspectives. Learni
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Introduction. Undergraduate Education for Twenty-First-Century America
Chapter One. Unsettling Individual Learning as the Cornerstone of a College Education
Chapter Two: A Twenty-First-Century Imperative: Placing Collaborative Learning at the Forefront of Student Success
Chapter Three: Situating Collaborative Learning at the Center of the Undergraduate Experience
Chapter Four: Blending Roles and Responsibilities of Faculty, Staff, and Students
Chapter Five: Receiving and Giving Feedback
Chapter Six: Anchoring the Curriculum in Shared Problem-Solving
Afterword: Beyond Predominantly White Undergraduate Education
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