The Practice of Collaborative Learning Among Lecturers in Malaysia (Report‪)‬

1. INTRODUCTION Numerous studies have been carried out on collaborative learning and many have shown that when students were given the opportunity to work collaboratively, they were able to perform better (Ocker & Yaverbaum, 2001), use advance strategic thinking skills (Wentzel & Watkins, 2002) and gained many other benefits from it. These positive outcomes and benefits, however, could not have been achieved or obtained without careful management of collaborative classroom activities. It cannot be taken for granted that when students are asked to work together in groups, successful learning outcomes will be the end result of it.